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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDebbie Wasserman Schultz wants opposition leaders installed to replace Nicols Maduro in Venezuela
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz says shes happy to see Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in custody for his crimes. But she expressed anger and alarm that President Donald Trump offered no plan to install democratically elected leaders there.
I am really glad that Maduro has been arrested, that hes going to be held accountable for his crimes, which include crimes against humanity as well as narco-trafficking crimes, so Im not shedding any tears that his reign of terror is over, Wasserman Schultz said. But to replace one unelected regime with another, which apparently Donald Trump has decided is him, is wildly inappropriate.
Most political observers agree Gonzalez received more votes in that contest. Yet Maduro remained in power, sworn into another term last year. The election followed Maduro threatening the arrest of other political opposition, including María Corina Machado, a political party leader removed from the ballot.
The Venezuelan people voted to elect Edmundo Gonzalez as president and supported their political party overwhelmingly, with nearly 70% of the vote, Wasserman Schultz said. Donald Trump today said in his press conference that, I mean, he had the audacity to say that Maria Corina Machado is a nice woman, but has no support in the country. That is an inexplicable thing to say that is not reflective of the truth.
I am really glad that Maduro has been arrested, that hes going to be held accountable for his crimes, which include crimes against humanity as well as narco-trafficking crimes, so Im not shedding any tears that his reign of terror is over, Wasserman Schultz said. But to replace one unelected regime with another, which apparently Donald Trump has decided is him, is wildly inappropriate.
Most political observers agree Gonzalez received more votes in that contest. Yet Maduro remained in power, sworn into another term last year. The election followed Maduro threatening the arrest of other political opposition, including María Corina Machado, a political party leader removed from the ballot.
The Venezuelan people voted to elect Edmundo Gonzalez as president and supported their political party overwhelmingly, with nearly 70% of the vote, Wasserman Schultz said. Donald Trump today said in his press conference that, I mean, he had the audacity to say that Maria Corina Machado is a nice woman, but has no support in the country. That is an inexplicable thing to say that is not reflective of the truth.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz wants opposition leaders installed to replace Nicols Maduro in Venezuela (Original Post)
Polybius
Saturday
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Wasserman Schultz' 25th Congressional District (FL-25) has a significant Venezuelan immigrant population.
sop
Saturday
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newdeal2
(4,794 posts)1. Why was it our job to arrest him unilaterally?
Also I thought this was about drugs?
Omnipresent
(7,307 posts)3. Well, we are dictatorship now.
We used to handle this stuff through the UN, but this somehow returns us to a time when American was great again?
indicted and charged here.
FascismIsDeath
(54 posts)7. It wasn't and... it wasn't. N/T
sop
(17,445 posts)2. Wasserman Schultz' 25th Congressional District (FL-25) has a significant Venezuelan immigrant population.
UTUSN
(76,960 posts)4. And KRASNOV is floating reimbursements to V. Exiles, sewing up their votes like with
the Cuban Exile vote. The Venezuelans were bummed over ICE but all's well now.
LisaL
(47,358 posts)6. And here I thought that democratic leaders
are elected, not installed.
WTF is an installed democratic leader?
Polybius
(21,514 posts)8. Dammed if I know
I was pretty stunned myself.
MerryBlooms
(12,161 posts)9. So, I ask again,
How many troops are going to protect our imposed government? How many US airborne warships will be firing on the rioters? Because, these people will want to be free from tyranny. The optics coming will be trump's undoing.