Venezuela Politics and Elections - Presidential Election (July 28, 2024)

[Peeperkorn]

The CNE has just revealed the questions that the Consultative Referendum on the defense of Guayana Esequiba will have that will be on December 3, there will be a total of 5 questions, the last question could take a step further in the historical claim of said territory to the seriously consider the creation of 24th State of Guayana Esequiba (Venezuela is made up of 23 states and a Capital District) with its own authorities and granting citizenship to those who reside in that area.

1. Do you agree to reject with all means, in accordance with the law, the line fraudulently imposed by the Paris Arbitration Award of 1899, which seeks to deprive us of our Guayana Esequiba?

2. Do you support the 1966 Geneva Agreement as the only valid legal instrument to reach a practical and satisfactory solution for Venezuela and Guyana regarding the controversy over the territory of Guayana Esequiba?

3. Do you agree with Venezuela's historical position of not recognizing the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice to resolve the territorial controversy over Guayana Esequiba?

4. Do you agree to oppose by all means, in accordance with the law, Guyana's claim to unilaterally dispose of a sea pending delimitation illegally and in violation of International Law?

5. Do you agree with the creation of the Guayana Esequiba state and the development of an accelerated plan for the comprehensive care of the current and future population of that territory that includes, among others, the granting of citizenship and Venezuelan identity card in accordance with the Geneva Agreement and International Law, consequently incorporating said state on the map of Venezuelan territory?

lmao

[Peeperkorn]

I see the far-left in Venezuela is still the pack of authoritarian, corrupt a-holes they’ve always been. Oh well, clearly another victory for The Global South!

PSUV are now center-left after kicking out the communists, and have especially shifted to a more upscale position in line with other social democratic formations given that the prior patronage machines that resulted in PSUV staying in power are being spared from the onslaught of the state. Look at Zulia or the prison raids, if what they’re doing isn’t trying to increase palatability to the middle class I don’t know what is.

That's how "scientific" socialism/communism works. It starts with an idealistic but naive worldview (you're currently in this stage) and ends with an authoritarian corrupt elite living at the expense of  increasingly starving and miserable masses: homo homini lupus est.