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Edmundo González, likely winner of Venezuela election, flees to Spain

González fled days after the attorney general for Venezuela’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, filed a warrant for the arrest of the former diplomat.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/08/edmundo-gonzlez-flees-venezuela-spain/

Edmundo González, the Venezuelan opposition candidate and likely winner of the July 28 presidential election, fled the South American nation on Saturday and has received asylum in Spain, his attorney confirmed.

“Unfortunately, the pressure against him was too strong,” said González’s lawyer, José Vicente Haro.

González’s departure comes five days after the attorney general for Venezuela’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, filed a warrant for the arrest of the 75-year-old former diplomat as part of what he said was an investigation into the opposition’s publication of voting machine receipts showing its candidate won more than twice as many votes as the socialist leader.

Maduro has faced widespread backlash — domestically and internationally — after he declared himself the winner of the election and unleashed a wave of violent repression that rights advocates say is the country’s worst yet. A slew of opposition figures have been detained by Maduro’s security forces or forced into hiding.

Late Saturday evening, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez announced via Instagram that González left after having been “granted the due safe passage for the sake of the tranquility and political peace of the country.”

Fol“This conduct reaffirms the respect for the law that has prevailed in the actions of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the international community,” Rodríguez wrote.

González, she added, had been a “voluntary refugee” in the Spanish Embassy in Caracas for several days. Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares wrote on X that González was heading to the European nation aboard a Spanish Air Force plane.

Juan Pablo Guanipa, an opposition leader, slammed Rodríguez’s statement about the country offering González a “safe passage” to maintain peace in the country.

“That is not the peace that we Venezuelans want. There was a [voting] result that was violated by Maduro and the [national electoral council] and we have to continue fighting so that the victory of [González] is respected, no matter where he is,” Guanipa wrote on X.

According to El País, the diplomatic operation to enable González to safely arrive at the airport and leave the country without being arrested had been underway for two weeks — though the former diplomat made his final decision only after having a meeting with Spanish diplomats Saturday morning, the outlet reported.

On Friday, the night before González’s departure, Maduro’s security forces began surrounding the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, where six of opposition leader María Corina Machado’s top aides have sought asylum for months. The officials remained there throughout Saturday as the Venezuelan government announced it had revoked Brazil’s authorization to represent Argentine interests in the country, including administering the embassy.

That move, El País reported, became a “clear signal” for both González and Spain’s diplomats “that there is currently no safe refuge” in the country.

Haro, González’s attorney, declined to delve into the arrangements that led to his exile but said “there were many details and aspects related to this complex negotiation, the guarantees agreed and the associated situations.”

Ultimately, he added, the decision weighed heavily on González — who opted to avoid the arrest that was most likely awaiting him after a prosecutor accused him of crimes including usurpation, forgery of a public document, instigation and sabotage. Maduro has also accused González of endorsing violence and connected him to a nationwide power outage last week.

Maduro, who has ruled the South American country for more than a decade, has repeatedly used its judiciary to affirm his authority. Last month, Venezuela’s high court ratified Maduro’s claimed election victory — a seal of institutional approval for another six-year term — after the Maduro-controlled National Electoral Council anointed him the winner in July, with what it said was nearly 52 percent of the vote to González’s 43 percent. But the council has not released precinct-level results, and independent reviews of receipts from 23,000 voting machines indicate that González won the election by a wide margin.

He probably got more than twice as many votes as Maduro, according to a Washington Post review of precinct-level tally sheets collected by the opposition — a sample that represents nearly 80 percent of voting machines nationwide.

The United States — along with the European Union and several Latin American countries — has refused to accept Maduro’s claim of victory and instead demanded that the government release precinct-level voting results, as required by the country’s laws.

On Tuesday, White House national security spokesman John Kirby decried the arrest warrant against González as “another example of Mr. Maduro’s efforts to maintain power by force and to refuse to recognize that Mr. González won the most votes on the 28th of July.” He added that the Biden administration is “considering a range of options to demonstrate to Mr. Maduro and his representatives that their actions in Venezuela will have consequences.”

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Accounts on X

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The Trump shuffle

[cosmicway 1,333]

2 hours ago, Vesper said:

Edmundo González, likely winner of Venezuela election, flees to Spain

González fled days after the attorney general for Venezuela’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, filed a warrant for the arrest of the former diplomat.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/08/edmundo-gonzlez-flees-venezuela-spain/

Edmundo González, the Venezuelan opposition candidate and likely winner of the July 28 presidential election, fled the South American nation on Saturday and has received asylum in Spain, his attorney confirmed.

“Unfortunately, the pressure against him was too strong,” said González’s lawyer, José Vicente Haro.

González’s departure comes five days after the attorney general for Venezuela’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, filed a warrant for the arrest of the 75-year-old former diplomat as part of what he said was an investigation into the opposition’s publication of voting machine receipts showing its candidate won more than twice as many votes as the socialist leader.

Maduro has faced widespread backlash — domestically and internationally — after he declared himself the winner of the election and unleashed a wave of violent repression that rights advocates say is the country’s worst yet. A slew of opposition figures have been detained by Maduro’s security forces or forced into hiding.

Late Saturday evening, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez announced via Instagram that González left after having been “granted the due safe passage for the sake of the tranquility and political peace of the country.”

Fol“This conduct reaffirms the respect for the law that has prevailed in the actions of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the international community,” Rodríguez wrote.

González, she added, had been a “voluntary refugee” in the Spanish Embassy in Caracas for several days. Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares wrote on X that González was heading to the European nation aboard a Spanish Air Force plane.

Juan Pablo Guanipa, an opposition leader, slammed Rodríguez’s statement about the country offering González a “safe passage” to maintain peace in the country.

“That is not the peace that we Venezuelans want. There was a [voting] result that was violated by Maduro and the [national electoral council] and we have to continue fighting so that the victory of [González] is respected, no matter where he is,” Guanipa wrote on X.

According to El País, the diplomatic operation to enable González to safely arrive at the airport and leave the country without being arrested had been underway for two weeks — though the former diplomat made his final decision only after having a meeting with Spanish diplomats Saturday morning, the outlet reported.

On Friday, the night before González’s departure, Maduro’s security forces began surrounding the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, where six of opposition leader María Corina Machado’s top aides have sought asylum for months. The officials remained there throughout Saturday as the Venezuelan government announced it had revoked Brazil’s authorization to represent Argentine interests in the country, including administering the embassy.

That move, El País reported, became a “clear signal” for both González and Spain’s diplomats “that there is currently no safe refuge” in the country.

Haro, González’s attorney, declined to delve into the arrangements that led to his exile but said “there were many details and aspects related to this complex negotiation, the guarantees agreed and the associated situations.”

Ultimately, he added, the decision weighed heavily on González — who opted to avoid the arrest that was most likely awaiting him after a prosecutor accused him of crimes including usurpation, forgery of a public document, instigation and sabotage. Maduro has also accused González of endorsing violence and connected him to a nationwide power outage last week.

Maduro, who has ruled the South American country for more than a decade, has repeatedly used its judiciary to affirm his authority. Last month, Venezuela’s high court ratified Maduro’s claimed election victory — a seal of institutional approval for another six-year term — after the Maduro-controlled National Electoral Council anointed him the winner in July, with what it said was nearly 52 percent of the vote to González’s 43 percent. But the council has not released precinct-level results, and independent reviews of receipts from 23,000 voting machines indicate that González won the election by a wide margin.

He probably got more than twice as many votes as Maduro, according to a Washington Post review of precinct-level tally sheets collected by the opposition — a sample that represents nearly 80 percent of voting machines nationwide.

The United States — along with the European Union and several Latin American countries — has refused to accept Maduro’s claim of victory and instead demanded that the government release precinct-level voting results, as required by the country’s laws.

On Tuesday, White House national security spokesman John Kirby decried the arrest warrant against González as “another example of Mr. Maduro’s efforts to maintain power by force and to refuse to recognize that Mr. González won the most votes on the 28th of July.” He added that the Biden administration is “considering a range of options to demonstrate to Mr. Maduro and his representatives that their actions in Venezuela will have consequences.”

Why is Maduro shy to release precinct level results ?
He can cook them like he cooked the general result. Can't he ?

It looks to me like typical socialist incompetence.
The opposition representatives were not allowed to be present in every polling station yet they were allowed in some.
So apparently there are local results that show Gonzales as the winner and apparently those have been verified by the opposition and countersigned by Maduro's representatives.
But after the fraud the idiots have lost track and they don't know which is which.
So if they publish, the election theft will become obvious.

Ahmadinejad - Papadopoulos - Franco - Salazar would never have done that.
Yet another demonstration of socialist failure.

 

Edited September 8, 2024 by cosmicway

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3 hours ago, Vesper said:

Elon Musk on pace to become world’s first trillionaire by 2027, report says
In addition to world’s richest person, who has $251bn, report names others on track to receive trillionaire status

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/07/elon-musk-first-trillionaire-2027

 

Elon Musk is on pace to become the world’s first trillionaire by 2027, according to a new report from a group that tracks wealth.

Informa Connect Academy’s finding about the boss of electric carmaker Tesla, private rocket company SpaceX and social media platform X (formerly Twitter) stems from the fact that Musk’s wealth has been growing at an average annual rate of 110%. He was also the world’s richest person, with $251bn, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as the academy’s 2024 Trillion Dollar Club report began circulating Friday.

The academy’s analysis suggested business conglomerate founder Gautam Adani of India would become the second to achieve trillionaire status. That would reportedly happen in 2028 if his annual growth rate remains at 123%.

Jensen Huang, the chief executive officer of the tech firm Nvidia, and Prajogo Pangestu, the Indonesian energy and mining mogul, could also become trillionaires in 2028 if their trajectories hold. Bernard Arnault, the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton boss and the world’s third-richest person with about $200bn, is on track to eclipse a trillion dollars in 2030 – the same year as Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta.

A handful of companies have secured valuations of more than $1tn. Berkshire Hathaway most recently topped the valuation in late August, days before its architect Warren Buffett celebrated his 94th birthday. Nvidia joined the $1tn club in May 2023 and in June hit $3tn, positioning it at the time after Microsoft and before Apple as the world’s second-most-valuable company.

However, as CNBC noted, the question of who might be the globe’s first trillionaire has fascinated the public ever since the world crowned its first billionaire in 1916. That was the US’s John D Rockefeller, the founder and at the time largest shareholder of Standard Oil.

Despite that fascination, many academics see the accumulation of immense wealth as a social ill. One report calculated that the richest 1% of humanity account for more carbon emissions – a primary driver of the ongoing climate crisis – than the poorest 66%.

Just days before Informa Connect Academy tapped Musk as the most likely to become the world’s first trillionaire, one of his posts on X earned him backlash from many of the site’s users.

His post said an interview between former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and podcaster Darryl Cooper – a fellow rightwing media figure – was “very interesting. Worth watching.”

Cooper claimed in the interview that the Nazis did not mean to murder so many people when they carried out the Holocaust and killed 6 million Jews during the second world war. Instead, Cooper remarked, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime simply was not equipped to care for them – and the podcaster blamed British prime minister Winston Churchill for “that war becoming what it did”.

Musk ultimately deleted his post, and the White House condemned Carlson’s interview of Cooper as “a disgusting and sadistic insult to all Americans”.

The billionaire announced in August that he is supporting Donald Trump as the Republican nominee seeks a second presidency in November’s election. Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice-president, is also running in the election.

Unless the cunt croaks

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8 hours ago, cosmicway said:

Socialism in one wod:

[Fulham Broadway 17,306]

3 hours ago, Vesper said:

Accounts on X

Social media owners are in essence publishers. 

If you or I published hate speech - which Elon Musk (Lone Skum) good anagram btw and Fuckerberg seem to allow we'd be prosecuted. They are responsible for ongoing violence, deaths and misogyny and people aspiring to something they will never be

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

3 hours ago, Vesper said:

Edmundo González, likely winner of Venezuela election, flees to Spain

González fled days after the attorney general for Venezuela’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, filed a warrant for the arrest of the former diplomat.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/08/edmundo-gonzlez-flees-venezuela-spain/

Edmundo González, the Venezuelan opposition candidate and likely winner of the July 28 presidential election, fled the South American nation on Saturday and has received asylum in Spain, his attorney confirmed.

“Unfortunately, the pressure against him was too strong,” said González’s lawyer, José Vicente Haro.

González’s departure comes five days after the attorney general for Venezuela’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, filed a warrant for the arrest of the 75-year-old former diplomat as part of what he said was an investigation into the opposition’s publication of voting machine receipts showing its candidate won more than twice as many votes as the socialist leader.

Maduro has faced widespread backlash — domestically and internationally — after he declared himself the winner of the election and unleashed a wave of violent repression that rights advocates say is the country’s worst yet. A slew of opposition figures have been detained by Maduro’s security forces or forced into hiding.

Late Saturday evening, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez announced via Instagram that González left after having been “granted the due safe passage for the sake of the tranquility and political peace of the country.”

Fol“This conduct reaffirms the respect for the law that has prevailed in the actions of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the international community,” Rodríguez wrote.

González, she added, had been a “voluntary refugee” in the Spanish Embassy in Caracas for several days. Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares wrote on X that González was heading to the European nation aboard a Spanish Air Force plane.

Juan Pablo Guanipa, an opposition leader, slammed Rodríguez’s statement about the country offering González a “safe passage” to maintain peace in the country.

“That is not the peace that we Venezuelans want. There was a [voting] result that was violated by Maduro and the [national electoral council] and we have to continue fighting so that the victory of [González] is respected, no matter where he is,” Guanipa wrote on X.

According to El País, the diplomatic operation to enable González to safely arrive at the airport and leave the country without being arrested had been underway for two weeks — though the former diplomat made his final decision only after having a meeting with Spanish diplomats Saturday morning, the outlet reported.

On Friday, the night before González’s departure, Maduro’s security forces began surrounding the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, where six of opposition leader María Corina Machado’s top aides have sought asylum for months. The officials remained there throughout Saturday as the Venezuelan government announced it had revoked Brazil’s authorization to represent Argentine interests in the country, including administering the embassy.

That move, El País reported, became a “clear signal” for both González and Spain’s diplomats “that there is currently no safe refuge” in the country.

Haro, González’s attorney, declined to delve into the arrangements that led to his exile but said “there were many details and aspects related to this complex negotiation, the guarantees agreed and the associated situations.”

Ultimately, he added, the decision weighed heavily on González — who opted to avoid the arrest that was most likely awaiting him after a prosecutor accused him of crimes including usurpation, forgery of a public document, instigation and sabotage. Maduro has also accused González of endorsing violence and connected him to a nationwide power outage last week.

Maduro, who has ruled the South American country for more than a decade, has repeatedly used its judiciary to affirm his authority. Last month, Venezuela’s high court ratified Maduro’s claimed election victory — a seal of institutional approval for another six-year term — after the Maduro-controlled National Electoral Council anointed him the winner in July, with what it said was nearly 52 percent of the vote to González’s 43 percent. But the council has not released precinct-level results, and independent reviews of receipts from 23,000 voting machines indicate that González won the election by a wide margin.

He probably got more than twice as many votes as Maduro, according to a Washington Post review of precinct-level tally sheets collected by the opposition — a sample that represents nearly 80 percent of voting machines nationwide.

The United States — along with the European Union and several Latin American countries — has refused to accept Maduro’s claim of victory and instead demanded that the government release precinct-level voting results, as required by the country’s laws.

On Tuesday, White House national security spokesman John Kirby decried the arrest warrant against González as “another example of Mr. Maduro’s efforts to maintain power by force and to refuse to recognize that Mr. González won the most votes on the 28th of July.” He added that the Biden administration is “considering a range of options to demonstrate to Mr. Maduro and his representatives that their actions in Venezuela will have consequences.”

I have a bridge in London to sell folks if anybody thinks the citizens of Venezuela actually elected this CIA plant. This man actually lived right up the street from the feds while getting a degree in Washington DC. We used to be much better at hiding our meddling in the third world. 

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17 minutes ago, Vesper said:

 

Leave her out to die you sill berk.

[cosmicway 1,333]

10 minutes ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

I have a bridge in London to sell folks if anybody thinks the citizens of Venezuela actually elected this CIA plant. This man actually lived right up the street from the feds while getting a degree in Washington DC. We used to be much better at hiding our meddling in the third world. 

So why Maduro fluffed his lines you think ?

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

23 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

So why Maduro fluffed his lines you think ?

I dont think he did. I think he was reelected because the people that live there, despite it sucking, probably remember how much things also sucked when Western plants ran things.

 

We were able to prop up a small minority in these places, usually white and rich, bring them to America where they party for 2-3 years in university, and then send them back to lord over the "poor brown wretches". It works until it stops working. The fact that this guy, just Like Leopoldo Lopez(another guy who took money and partied at American universities with Feds) can just run off to the old colonial power Spain when their little parties end is just further proof of this. None of these people give two shits about Venezuela, or the people who live there. They just want to lord over people they were raised, and further taught at Universities here, to think they are better than.

[cosmicway 1,333]

4 minutes ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

I dont think he did. I think he was reelected because the people that live there, despite it sucking, probably remember how much things also sucked when Western plants ran things.

 

We were able to prop up a small minority in these places, usually white and rich, bring them to America where they party for 2-3 years in university, and then send them back to lord over the "poor brown wretches". It works until it stops working. The fact that this guy, just Like Leopoldo Lopez(another guy who took money and partied at American universities with Feds) can just run off to the old colonial power Spain when their little parties end is just further proof of this. None of these people give two shits about Venezuela, or the people who live there. They just want to lord over people they were raised, and further taught at Universities here, to think they are better than.

Ok, he is the best thing since Lenin, Stalin and the three Stooges in beer and pretzels.
I asked why he made a mess with the election returns.

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

2 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

Ok, he is the best thing since Lenin, Stalin and the three Stooges in beer and pretzels.
I asked why he made a mess with the election returns.

I dont think he did. I think this whole focus on it is the west mad their puppet wasnt able to get in there, and make corporations richer off of the natural resources of Venezuela.

[cosmicway 1,333]

21 minutes ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

I dont think he did. I think this whole focus on it is the west mad their puppet wasnt able to get in there, and make corporations richer off of the natural resources of Venezuela.

Look m8.
I 've been electoral representative for the state once and they paid me 200 quid for my efforts.
I deseved more because apart from being a representative I also had to vote myself and they made an error in my street name and I had to go up a mountain to vote and then return to my assgined position. So I did n't sleep for 36 hours, but still 200 quid.
I know how the system works.
We count. The invalid ballots are discarded and we pass them around to the party representatives so they all agree they are invalid. Then we write down the result. Me, the commie representative, the other one from New Democracy and the socialist. Then I take the result to the fax room and send to the ministry of interior.
Friendly atmosphere, a candidate walked in at one stage and I talked him into ordering us a chinese dinner.
This means there can be no cheat and there was no such thing as postal votes.
I don't remember the party representatives having to sign anything or me having to sign anything for them, but surely they could use their computers to check everything.

This did n't happen in Venezuela because in most election centres the opposition representatives were shown the door.
But not everywhere, hence their claim that they counted many Gonzales wins.
Now, why Maduro is n't showing to anybody the full records of the voting process ?
And we are no longer living in the days of Aristides the Athenian with the voting shards. It's a mere USB we are talking about.
 

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

We also play this little game across the third world. Just this year we tried to finance a coup in the Congo through Christian Malanga.

Step 1: Bring over someone from the country. This guy was given "Asylum" from the DRC. Despite the fact that this country was(relatively) stable at the time and his dad had a cushy job as a manager at a General Motors plant.

 

Step 2: Indoctrinate them, make it worth their while. This Malanga plant ends up in the US military. Fine enough, many immigrants join the armed forces.

 

Step 3: Craft a story for them, so they can be viewed as leaders in the old nation. This plant was sent back to a country he had not lived in since a child, as an asylum seeker, and US military member to serve in THEIR military. Sit down and think of this. A guy who was an asylum seeker, true blue American serving in the military, and someone who had not been in that nation since they were a child went there to serve in their military. I repeated this because of how absurd this story is.

 

Step 4:  He ends up in Salt Lake city running multiple used car shops. Ok, No formal education, asylum seeker, US vet, running multiple expensive car shops in the expensive mormon capital of America? Where did this money come from?

 

Step 5: "Where the white women at?" Random mixed kids to be heirs of the new nation with NO ties to the original country


Step 6: "Guess I'm the rightfully ruler of a nation, which I had not lived in since a child, despite making a life and becoming a citizen of this new country." This man randomly got in the ear of every other republican in Washington as a de facto leader of this country, despite being a full on American service-member who was raised in, lived, worked, and had kids that were 100% American.

 

Republican after republican giving this clown money and photo ops:




Step 7: Now my son is balling out. Where did the money come from?


Step 7: Jewish guy Follows me EVERYWHERE:



Even back to the congo when I got tried, and failed, to take over a country:


Feds

Feds

Feds

 

Its what we are trying to do in Venezuela too, and it will failed like it did in the Congo.