Viewpoint by Vijay Prashad *
This article was produced by Globetrotter.
NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts (IDN) – In June, Joe Biden, who will be the U.S. president in January 2021, sent out a tweet that described Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro—and others—as “thugs and dictators.” Maduro won two elections to hold his post—in 2013 and 2018. In 2018, Maduro won 67.8 per cent of the vote, losing a third of the votes to Henri Falcón and Javier Bertucci, two figures of the opposition.
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