VENEZUELA; Opposition in hiding & what is to be done? Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ
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VENEZUELA; Opposition in hiding & what is to be done? Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelans-send-a-message-to-maduro-presidential-election-latin-america-7f698c08?st=cp30tdrdho89lq6&reflink=article_gmail_share
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| 0:00.0 | This is a CBS, I in the world. I'm John Masher. Venezuela, the election challenged by a variety of countries in the Americas and around the world, also supported by Same. |
| 0:16.3 | I welcome Marianistagio Grady, the America's columnist and editor for the Wall Street Journal observing this election as a way of telling |
| 0:25.8 | who is on the side of democracy and transparency and who is not leading the not category would be Russia and China |
| 0:36.2 | both congratulating Maduro for his election as president on the category of opposed that would be the OAS, the EU, the |
| 0:47.8 | Carter Center, the United States and the list is long. In the Americas, it's led by Argentina, Javier Malay, saying that the |
| 0:58.0 | vote is corrupt and not acceptable. There must be validation. Mary, a very good evening to you, |
| 1:03.0 | who anticipated all this for years and months and weeks |
| 1:07.0 | in your most recent column. |
| 1:09.0 | Are there any surprises so far in the way this is spilling out |
| 1:12.0 | the violence, the spilling out the violence the threats the |
| 1:13.9 | contradictions good evening to you mad well good evening John and I would say |
| 1:18.4 | sadly that there aren't too many surprises here You know you mentioned that Argentina is very active in trying to |
| 1:26.9 | defend the Venezuelan democracy advocates but Peru is even more aggressive. |
| 1:35.8 | It basically was the first country |
| 1:38.1 | to recognize the election of Ed Mundo, Gonzales, orutia, the. the candidate for the opposition. |
| 1:45.0 | But Argentina is in the mix in the mix very much |
| 1:51.0 | because in March, six members of the of the opposition took refuge in |
| 1:58.8 | the Argentine embassy and that's a very important issue going on right now because they're in there. |
| 2:06.9 | Some people from the regime tried to get in on Monday night. |
| 2:10.8 | Other people came and defended the embassy from the outside of Venezuela and they went away. |
| 2:17.0 | But that remains a target. |
| 2:19.0 | The government cut electricity to the building yesterday I think it was and so this is a this is an |
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