instead of presenting said electoral rules and letting the reader decide if they are so designed.
So, the newspaper should waste precious space in the article by copy&pasting God-knows how many paragraphs and pages of legal text?
And if the opposition has such an overwhelming majority, why did they decide not to participate?
Because they are against this referendum and do not want to lend this referendum any credibility.
In a recent Investig’Action article we examined the opposition’s highly doubtful numbers, Venezuelanalysis did the same.
Waitwaitwaitwaitwait... You mean dissidentvoice.org is allowed to just skip and throw conclusions at the reader, while the Guardian is supposed to post the original source-material for full transparency???
It was not the government that overrode the National Assembly, but the Supreme Court.
And the Supreme Court judges were handpicked by Maduro.
Funny how dissidentvoice.org is allowed to leave out inconvenient facts, but the Guardian isn't.
To anyone familiar with the recent history of Venezuela these announcements sound eerily like the events leading up to the failed 2002 coup.
Anybody opposed to Maduro is a CIA-stooge. Got it.
Maduro has said that, rain or shine, there will be a presidential election in 2018. And he said it after convening the Constituent Assembly. The omission of this statement is again plain dishonest journalism.
Maduro has promised to go for violence and civil war if he loses at the ballot-box. The omission of this statement is again plain dishonest journalism.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/110856116
“I say this for the whole world to hear, and I hope that the world would listen after 90 days of violence, destruction and death, if Venezuela falls into chaos and violence, if the bolivarian revolution is destroyed, we’ll fight back, we’ll never surrender and what we couldn’t achieve through votes, we’d do with guns, like Bolívar, Sucre and Negro Primero did before us. Make no mistake, we want peace, we’re peaceful men and women, but we’re fighters.” Nicolás Maduro, 28/06/2017
It is amazing that countries that are part of PetroCaribe are bullied by oil diplomacy, and yet countries that receive billions in US (military) aid and host US military bases are moved by a genuine love for democracy and human rights.
Venezuela is bullying and bribing other countries? Let's change topics and talk about the US instead!
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