From hiding, since an order for her arrest has been issued, Maria Corina Machado, the brave head of Venezuela’s opposition, has made an urgent plea to the international community to please intervene in the name of justice.
The opposition has proof of the vote fraud committed by Nicolas Maduro’s regime.
Poll watchers who had been deployed at the various sites, gathered the necessary digital evidence to make the case that Maduro lost by a wide margin.
They have offered to provide it to any nation who wants it.
So now they ask, in the name of justice, will you intervene?
It is a desperate plea.
‘We’re being hunted here, we’re being persecuted, shot at and killed. Will you step up?
Will you do something?’ she’s saying to us.
Maria Corina Machado speaks for Venezuela’s longing for liberty after years of dictatorship.
Do we, here in America, worry that if we take a tough stance, whatever that might be, Venezuela will retaliate by withholding oil supplies that could raise the price of gas in the US at election time?
We should not.
A principled stand on this matter is worth lots more in good will from other nations and the world.
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