Was the Venezuelan election rigged?
Abby Martin speaks with election observer, Kei Pritsker.
We’ve all heard the same things about Venezuela coming from every corporate news outlet. Venezuela’s a dictatorship and Maduro is a dangerous tyrant further consolidating power though fraudulent elections. Weirdly enough, not many dictatorships have elections, certainly not over 20 in the last 20 years like Venezuela has. And there’s a funny thing about how the US media and political establishment views Venezuela’s elections. They’re illegitimate except when the US-backed opposition party has major victories, which they have twice very recently. One of those was the 2015 National Assembly election where they won a supermajority in the body that is similar to the US Congress.