Sham election held. Culprit is Maria Corina Machado. The OG 
and totally not a CIA 
stooge. We're talking 
era.
Washington can't find any new blood to do their tricks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado
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She was also part of Yale University's World Fellows Program in 2009.
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founding of Venezuelan volunteer civil organization Súmate
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In 2018, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women (wonder why?)
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In 2019, amid the Venezuelan presidential crisis, she announced that she would launch a second presidential run if disputed interim
President Juan Guaidó successfully called for an election; Guaidó was ultimately unsuccessful in his efforts. 
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She is a presidential candidate for Vente Venezuela in the primary elections of the Unitary Platform of 2023, although on 30 June 2023 she was disputably disqualified for fifteen years
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She is the daughter of Henrique Machado Zuloaga, a prominent steel businessman
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Súmate led a petition drive for the 2004 Venezuelan recall referendum of Hugo Chávez
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Chávez branded the leaders of Súmate as conspirators, coup plotters, and lackeys of the U.S. government. After the referendum, members of Súmate were charged with treason and conspiracy, under Article 132 of the Venezuelan Penal Code, for receiving financial support for their activities from the
National Endowment for Democracy (NED). In 2005, The Wall Street Journal said Machado faced conspiracy charge stemming from the $31,000 grant from the NED for "non-partisan educational work". 
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the Venezuelan government considers her "a member of a corrupt elite that is doing the bidding of the much reviled Bush administration"
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She also faced treason charges for signing the Carmona Decree during the 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt.
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On 21 March 2014, Machado appeared as an alternate envoy at the request of Panama at the Organization of American States (OAS), amid the protests in Venezuela, to speak about the situation in Venezuela.[39] According to The Wall Street Journal, following her appearance at the OAS, "pro-Maduro parliamentarians, who dominate the National Assembly", claimed her appearance at the OAS was prohibited by Venezuela's constitution, and removed her from the National Assembly
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She has described herself as a centrist liberal, saying in an interview with El Estímulo that the categories of left and right were invented by Marxists and that she is the only non-socialist poitician in the Venezuelan political spectrum...Vente is a party of centre liberals.
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She defended the claim that "being rich is good"
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Machado is divorced
