Really loving the usual suspects coming in here to immediately play apologist. Fuck Maduro.
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Yeah I can't say I know the political situation that well, but as of the end of 2023 the number of Venezuelans illegally crossing (47,000) had increased to just below the number of Mexicans (56,000.) It is a lot harder trip for the Venezuelans because they must cross the Darien Gap on foot, so something must be wrong in Venezuela.
You have to admit it's pretty interesting that OP went with a Voice of America source.
It's also pretty interesting that I've never seen VOA being posted until the election season decided to really kick off.
It’s also pretty interesting that I’ve never seen VOA being posted until the election season decided to really kick off.
Then you haven't been paying attention.
I pay entirely too much attention to Lemmy.
Not enough, then, unless you count the entire time from the exodus 'til now as being part of the election season. Which, while not incorrect, would not be particularly useful for identifying trends in sources.
You're right. "Never" was a strong choice. "Rarely and definitely not daily in trending."
I remember seeing it often enough that there were frequent quarrels over the source in the comments that I was usually involved in.
Can't speak for other situations but as spanish I must clarify that the reasons why the Spanish PP party "observers" were kicked out is because they lacked the proper VISA to be officially electoral observers and the proper invitation to act as such from the electoral authorities from Venezuela, which more than 1000 observers from the whole electoral field (some of them far right BTW) managed to get, because they followed the proper bureaucracy to get them. They traveled on a tourist VISA and when they got rejected they claimed in social media as if they were almost being kidnapped by Venezuelan authorities. An embarrassment for my country is what they are...