Quote (zarkadon @ Nov 1 2017 12:27pm)
But the 2015 legislative elections that the opposition won weren't rigged, so what happened now?
I understand there were shady procedures in the regional elections, like the government not allowing the opposition to remove from the ballots the names of opposition leaders that had lost their primaries and weren't officially running anymore (this confusing the voters), or Maduro claiming that people voting in the state elections would be a form of support towards his ongoing constitutional process (to get opposition supporters to stay at home), but there seems to be more behind this. I mean, things like Henrique Capriles saying he wouldn't be part of any opposition coalition that included other opposition leaders like Henry Ramos Allup, shows there are some obvious problems within the movement.
Henry Ramos Allup is the leader of the "electoral opposition" aka controlled opposition (or the "mediatic opposition" as I called them in previous pages in this topic). Allup has multimillionaire deals with the dictatorship and is involved in a lot of money laundering. Yet some people inside Venezuela and outside Venezuela still think he is an opposition member because he is the chief of "Accion Democratica" (which in theory supposely is an opposition party but it's actually part of the controlled opposition). Capriles is no saint, but Allup is more dirtier than the rest.
The only ones divided right now are the members of the controlled opposition because half of them were backstabbed by the dictatorship. The dictatorship promised them all a part of the pie but only kept his promise to a few of them. So this conflict is between members of the controlled opposition.
The real opposition have nothing to do with those backstabbing controlled opposition scums who only care about their own personal benefits and deals.
This post was edited by Golden_Order on Nov 1 2017 11:34am