Venezuelans stay away from polls to protest government vote

Most people (I think) know that the South American nation of Venezuela had some kind of 'election" or "vote" happening.

Apparently the people there are actually boycotting the polls !

Turnout is very thin and why?

Maybe they knew the "votes" would be useless as they are in many countries.

WTF is going on there anyway?

Can we even believe any "News" coming from "sources" there?

Venezuelans stay away from polls to protest government vote

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans stayed away from the polls in massive numbers on Sunday in a show of protest against a vote to grant President Nicolas Maduro’s ruling socialist party virtually unlimited powers in the face of a brutal socio-economic crisis and a grinding battle against its political opponents and groups of increasingly alienated and violent young protesters.

The government swore to continue its push for total political dominance of this once-prosperous OPEC nation, a move likely to trigger U.S. sanctions and new rounds of the street fighting that has killed at least 122 and wounded nearly 2,000 since protests began in April.

Venezuela’s chief prosecutor’s office reported seven deaths Sunday in clashes between protesters and police across the country. Seven police officers were wounded when an explosion went off as they drove past piles of trash that had been used to blockade a street in an opposition stronghold in eastern Caracas.

Across the capital of more than 2 million people, dozens of polling places were virtually empty, including many that saw hours-long lines of thousands voting to keep the government in power over the last two decades. By contrast, at the Poliedro sports and cultural complex in western Caracas, several thousand people waited about two hours to vote, many drawn from opposition-dominated neighborhoods where polling places were closed. But at least three dozen other sites visited by The Associated Press had no more than a few hundred voters at any one time, with many virtually empty.

a reply to: xuenchen

Venezuela.....that was a nice socialism experiment.......they really know what they are doing down there.
I wonder if the Liberals have taken notice to what's been happening there lately?

originally posted by: RazorV66
a reply to: xuenchen

Venezuela.....that was a nice socialism experiment.......they really know what they are doing down there.
I wonder if the Liberals have taken notice to what's been happening there lately?

I agree. If liberals start spouting nonsense about socialism, I'll just point them to Venezuela. Socialism was never a good idea anyway, all it does is create dependence.