What a shock.
Venezuela’s national Electoral Council announced late Sunday night that Dictator President Nicolás Maduro received 51% of the vote to win reelection.
Edmundo González, Maduro’s opposition, supposedly only got 44% of the votes despite leading Maduro by 25% in the polls.
Once again, the Biden administration looks weak because it made numerous concessions to Venezuela if it promised to hold free and fair elections.
I mean, imagine even THINKING a dictator would ever consider holding an election that could get him kicked out. Precious.
Biden’s team knows its green energy plan is a farce and won’t work, but the members cannot admit it or allow drilling!
The administration hated the sanctions placed on Venezuela by former President Donald Trump because they believed those led to a decrease in oil production.
Well, a decrease in oil production could lead to higher gas prices, which would upset everyone.
But, you know, the administration just cannot have any drilling or oil production in America because green energy! It’s pathetic what came from the administration in March:
U.S. officials are concerned that reverting to Trump-era sanctions that accelerated the decline of Venezuela’s oil production would raise the price of gas at U.S. pumps and prompt more migration from Venezuela as President Biden campaigns for re-election in November. Restricting Western oil companies would tighten global energy supplies and open the way for Chinese investment in Venezuela, they say.Biden administration officials have said they didn’t think that the oil sanctions—leveled against Venezuela in early 2019 in former President Donald Trump’s effort to force Maduro from power—was constructive.Top officials including national security adviser Jake Sullivan; Amos Hochstein, senior White House energy adviser; and Deputy national security adviser Jon Finer are encouraging a different approach that emphasizes broader strategic interests such as energy supply over political change in Caracas.“We are committed to maintain sanctions relief if Maduro and his representatives uphold the commitments outlined” in a deal they signed in October for an electoral road map, a senior U.S. administration official said Friday. “We urge Maduro to do so.”Maintaining the current policy “spells a greater opportunity of keeping Venezuela as part of the Western marketplace, less inclined to spin back in the direction of China and Iran,” said an oil industry adviser familiar with the deliberations.
But it all started in October 2023 when the administration gave Venezuela a six-month license allowing oil companies to work in the oil rich country.
Maduro promised free and fair elections and taking back deportees after banning anyone from joining the presidential race.
It didn’t take long for Maduro to change. He banned Marina Corina Machado from running against him, stopped taking back Venezuelan illegal aliens, and arrested political opponents.
The administration reinstated the sanctions on Venezuela in April.
You know, because, who would have thought a dictator would agree to anything that lessens his hold on power?
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