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Club of Three: Venezuela and Brazil bar leading opposition presidential candidates from running for office, just like...
Club of Three: Venezuela and Brazil bar leading opposition presidential candidates from running for office, just like...
Under the news radar, two ugly power grabs from a pair of would-be Marxist dictators were announced yesterday from South America. From socialist Venezuela: CARACAS (Reuters) -Maria Corina Machado, one of the favorites to win ...
Under the news radar, two ugly power grabs from a pair of would-be Marxist dictators were announced yesterday from South America.
From socialist Venezuela:
From socialist Brazil:
Brazil's Bolsonaro barred from public office
Brazil's far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro vowed Friday to appeal a court ruling barring him from public office for eight years over unfounded attacks he had made against the country's voting system.- 'Collective paranoia' - The lead judge on the case, Benedito Goncalves, had ruled Tuesday...
It's like a Club of Three, given that the third person up for barring is President Trump.
He's in very good company with these top leaders, and vice versa.
What we have here is the entrenched left seeking to knock out its potential opposition after falling in the polls as election time beckons. The backdrop is years of economic and political mismanagement from the incumbents and the aim has been to achieve total, permanent power. If that can't be accomplished through elections, then the next step has been to shut the opposition down.
The grounds for the barrings in these South American incidents aren't accusations of taking, say, $30 million in bribe money. These were speech crimes, process crimes, flimsy pretexts never before seen back when these countries were functioning democracies. The political aims have been obvious to all. And it's no surprise that with these same incumbents in power, there also have been credible accusations of election fraud or suspected election fraud.
In the past, the U.S. would have spoken up about it, and called for fair elections, more civil society watchdogs, and stronger democratic institutions.
Today? Not so much, or rather, not from Joe Biden's White House.
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It's sad stuff, more of the ugly foreign policy influence of Joe Biden, who, as Bob Gates has said, has been wrong on just about every foreign policy issue.
Biden and his Democrats have opened the gates to these emboldened tyrannies to bar their opposition leaders on ridiculous grounds. The path to this sorry state of affairs, was paved by Democrats, who are still hammering away at their grand mastertask of barring President Trump from ever running for office, and barring American voters, from choosing the candidate that they want.
Commentary:
You can’t help but wonder whether the Biden Administration advised Venezuela and Brazil on these events like they did in the run up, immediate aftermath, of Brazilian election.
The Biden Administration’s efforts to affect their election were recently disclosed. Clandestine efforts with Brazilian authorities to “strengthen” their election. Talking points for refuting claims about electronic voting machines, irregularities in voting etc. Pressure on Bolsonaro to concede, pressure on the Brazilian military not to intervene as their Constitution expressly requires. Biden’s swift declaration of Lula as the victor. Coordinated messaging from the MSM framing Bolsonaro as an “election denier,” “dictator,” “refusing to respect the citizens decision.
