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GreenWave

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1. So I tried to get the other side of the story/
Sat Jan 27, 2024, 08:12 PM
Jan 2024

Mexico failed to do in its Universal anything other than translate the US story.
Finally backtracking from a Venezuelan paper I wanted to know why they feel she was committing treason.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelas-machado-wins-presidential-primary-near-final-count-shows-2023-10-25/


...The deal did not rescind the public office bans for figures like Machado, who was barred for her support of the U.S. sanctions imposed in 2019

...The electoral violations stem from the primary being organized without the National Electoral Council, Saab said.
The opposition this month declined the council's offer of help and its request to delay the vote until November after the council took several months to respond to the opposition's request for assistance.
Voter rolls for the primary included 2 million people who neither registered nor participated, Saab said, and financing for the primary has not been made public.
"Obviously it is a fraud, who financed this, who is behind it?" Saab said. "The funds are not known. Who provided them?"

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