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Freddie Stubbs

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Wed Jun 1, 2016, 12:38 PM Jun 2016

Venezuela's Maduro rooting for 'revolutionary friend' Sanders in U.S. campaign

Venezuela's embattled president, Nicolas Maduro, said on Tuesday night he supported Bernie Sanders in the U.S. presidential race, adding that the candidate, who describes himself as a democratic socialist, would win if the vote were "free."

Maduro, a socialist who sees himself as the political heir to his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, has long railed against the United States, blaming it for Venezuela's economic crisis and accusing Washington of attempting to topple him.

"Bernie Sanders, our revolutionary friend, ought to win in the United States," Maduro said during an hours-long televised broadcast.

"If the elections were free ... Bernie Sanders would be president of the United States," he said, criticizing the U.S. Electoral College system as unrepresentative of popular sentiment.

more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-usa-idUSKCN0YN32Q

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Venezuela's Maduro rooting for 'revolutionary friend' Sanders in U.S. campaign (Original Post) Freddie Stubbs Jun 2016 OP
Tell me that this "endorsement" by the leader of a failed socialist state Surya Gayatri Jun 2016 #1
 

Surya Gayatri

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1. Tell me that this "endorsement" by the leader of a failed socialist state
Wed Jun 1, 2016, 01:13 PM
Jun 2016

wouldn't be part of the opposition's arsenal, if God forbid, the Berned One got to the GE.

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