Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she is in hiding and that she fears for her freedom and for her life, in an op-ed published on Thursday in the Wall Street Journal.

Machado, who is the main force behind the presidential candidacy of former ambassador Edmundo González, emphasized that Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro lost Sunday’s election and that she can prove it.

“I write this from hiding, fearing for my life, my freedom and that of my fellow countrymen under the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro,” Machado wrote in an editorial titled: I can prove that Maduro got trounced.

“Mr. Maduro did not win the Venezuelan presidential election on Sunday. He lost by a landslide to Edmundo González, 67% to 30%. I know this to be true because I can prove it. I have receipts obtained directly from more than 80% of the country’s polling stations.”

Machado has not been seen for 24 hours.

  • @TokenBoomerEnglish
    -1•5 months ago

    where exit polling is illegal?

    So, you admit the Edison poll is bullshit propaganda? Nice. Can’t take that back homie, the cat’s outta the bag.

    (Machado with George Bush after the 2002 coup attempt in May 2005)

    • SeaJEnglish
      1•5 months ago

      Slight difference between a foreign company willing to break Venezuelan laws and the ‘most independent’ Venezuelan pollster, homie. Edison Research has a lot less to lose.

      I do love how you show a picture of Machado and try to link her to the 2002 coup attempt despite the picture being taken 3 years later. Good job. You know what Edmundo Gonzalez was doing in 2002? Working for Chávez.

      The official results were clearly made up. There was a 1 in 100 million chance that the results for Maduro and Gonzalez both landed exactly on a tenth of a percentage point. The official results were extremely unlikely. And there are receipts showing a very different result.

        • SeaJEnglish
          1•5 months ago

          Like Chávez’ attempted coup in 1992 that failed?

            • SeaJEnglish
              1•5 months ago

              Are you unaware of the 1992 Chavismo failed coup attempt?

              What sources would be acceptable for you?

              • @TokenBoomerEnglish
                0•5 months ago

                Any source will do. Are you aware that is 2024?

      • @TokenBoomerEnglish
        -4•5 months ago

        foreign company willing to break Venezuelan laws

        Complains about unfair election. Breaks international laws to prove it. lol 😂

        • SeaJEnglish
          1•5 months ago

          The source you cited broke international and local law…

          • @TokenBoomerEnglish
            -4•5 months ago

            I thought you were okay with that? 👍

            • @barsquidEnglish
              2•5 months ago

              As an outside perspective, the discussion would have been much more interesting to read if you had had any intellectual integrity whatsoever on these.

              • @TokenBoomerEnglish
                -1•5 months ago

                You mean like this:

                Unfortunately, intellectual integrity is a value that is under assault in America. The age of information has given rise to the age of confusion, and we are witnessing the breakdown in our basic valuing of intellectual integrity. Although there have always been anti-intellectual forces in America, there is growing evidence that those forces are on the rise (see here, here, here, and here) and we are now seeing a shift from the uninformed voter to the misinformed voter (individuals who made decisions based on blatant falsehoods.

                source

                • @barsquidEnglish
                  1•5 months ago

                  No I mean applying the same logic regardless of your feelings.

                  Though I am sure you are (deliberately) misinformed as well.

                  It would also help if you could use your words instead of sending a gif of yourself playing cymbals.

                  • @TokenBoomerEnglish
                    0•5 months ago

                    Oh, you want logic:

                    Argumentum ad hominem

                    Often nowadays this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.

              • @TokenBoomerEnglish
                -2•5 months ago

                From an inside perspective, this comment would have been much more interesting to reply to if you had any intellectual integrity and contributed to the substance of the post.