Russian news reports "On Sunday, the 14th of April 2013, Nicolás Maduro won the presidential elections with 50.66 percent of all votes in Venezuela and was congratulated by all progressive Latin American leaders." It then goes on to list president after president congratulating Maduro on his victory.
Omitted from congratulating the winner is President Obama, whose administration has backed the oligarch candidate, Henrique Capriles, who has fomented violence as 7 people have been killed and a large number injured by his followers in protesting the loss.
Those killed were publicly celebrating the Maduro victory, which apparently upset Capriles supporters, who want to bring back thinly veiled oligarch rule.
Venezuela's National Electoral Council has refused to hold a recount, saying an audit of ballots from 54 percent of the polling centers, in a widely respected electronic voting system, had already been done.
Most of the American mainstream media appear to support further recounts from the rhetoric they display, so one should ask, where were they in 2000, when the US Supreme Court overturned the Florida Supreme Court ruling that votes in that state should be recounted? In that presidential election, recall that the popular vote went to the loser, unlike the case in Venezuela, so there should have been even more democratic interest in counting votes, one would think. But in the Empire its "do as we say, not as we do."
"We do not inherit the land from
our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
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