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
    -4•1 month ago

    I thought you were okay with that? 👍

    • @barsquidEnglish
      2•1 month 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•1 month 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•1 month 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•1 month 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.

            • @barsquidEnglish
              1•1 month ago

              The projection continues. You don’t even understand what it means. Continue playing your cymbals, little one.

      • @TokenBoomerEnglish
        -2•1 month 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.