I'm not surprised. President Nicolás Maduro (allegedly but there's solid evidence) rigged last year's election, then used state violence and intimidation to sup

I'm not surprised. President Nicolás Maduro (allegedly but there's solid evidence) rigged last year's election, then used state violence and intimidation to suppress protests. > Maduro, who started a third term in January after an election widely denounced as a sham, signed a decree on Monday granting him additional, unspecified security powers. From before - https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/31/suspicious-data-pattern-in-recent-venezuelan-election/ https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/31/suspicious... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123155 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123155) And he's been jailing protestors without due process and censoring media for a while. - 2017: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/world/americas/venezuela-protests-maduro.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/world/americas/venezuela-... (https://archive.ph/Ljgvs https://archive.ph/Ljgvs, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14325532 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14325532) - 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20140706094137/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-02-14/twitter-says-venezuela-blocks-its-images-amid-protest-crackdown https://web.archive.org/web/20140706094137/http://www.busine... (original link dead, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7241722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7241722) I'm conflicted on US involvement in foreign nations given our past, but I have neither sympathy for nor support Maduro's government.