Exit polling released after voting centers began to close Sunday evening showed opposition candidate Edmundo González taking 65 percent of the vote, more than doubling Maduro’s 31 percent, Edison Research reported. Venezuelans were waiting for official results.

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      He’s closer to being a centrist and also worked for the Chávez government. He would almost certainly be much better an Maduro.

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        Do you know his views on working with the west on oil sales?

        Biden started lifting sanctions on Venezuela, but then Venezuela stated they were invading/annexing Guyana’s oil fields, so, that sanction removal idea died.

        Edit: the dumb part is Venezuela doesn’t seem to have a way to actually accomplish that goal. Yet they were willing to trash their oil sales (their primary export) over the idea.

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          It’s such an unfortunate situation. Why go after another country? Maybe Maduro is watching USA, or maybe USA spent too much time messing with Venezuela.

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            Could be as simple as the old “no leader is as popular as a war time leader” but.

            See also: Argentina and the Falkland Islands. Every so often, an Argentinian leader starts rattling his sabre over the Falklands to drum up support at home, despite the islands population being overwhelmingly in favor of staying British.

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          Really extra stupid on Venezuela because their oil reserves are low quality heavy sour crude (meaning the less desirable high sulfur content kind) requiring special refining to get the most out of it. Refining capacity Venezuela doesn’t have. To put it in perspective, the entire nation’s oil refining capacity is lower than a single, albeit large, refinery in the USA>

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        Isn’t the opposition conservative? If so, doubt it will be good for the people. I don’t know too much about the politics of Venezuela specifically, but I’ve never seen a conservative government benefit anyone but the rich long term.

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          The party and the candidate do not seem to be conservative.

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            In recent posts about Venezuela, I’ve noticed that anyone to the right of Pol Pot is considered conservative.

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          They are opposing a fake ass “socialist” tyrant so I guess they could be considered conservative in that way?

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            I mean, they seem to be for open markets and pro-Zionist, also more for Christians than indigenous, and against Chavez, who helped a lot of the poor in Venezuela. So far, she’s looking pretty conservative but I’m learning as I go along.

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          Quote from María Corina Machado (opposition leader kept off ballot) per CNN:

          We definitely need to open markets in order to take advantage of that huge potential and turn Venezuela into truly the energy hub of the Americas.

          How the how the country will benefit from that? We will have fiscal flows, and other resources, mechanisms through which the state will get taxes.

          She seems to like money.