The latest poll out of Venezuela, from early March, shows that US-backed Juan Guaido is not considered the nation’s present by hardly anybody in the country. With a 3% margin of error, only 3% identified Guaido as president.
After over a year of the US harping on about him being the legitimate president. 71% of Venezuelans identified President Maduro as the president. He’s the one who won the last election, and this comes despite the US having just put a $15 million bounty on him.
23.7 percent also said that no one was really president at this point, again well ahead of Guaido. Even people saying “I don’t know” were 2.2%, putting them neck and neck with Guaido. Clearly, he doesn’t have deep support in this poll.
A second question asked who they had more confidence in, and 60.7% declared they don’t have confidence in either. Maduro was just over 25% and Guaido was only 3.8%, suggesting even if given a choice very few have much faith in Guaido.
“With a 3% margin of error, only 3% identified Guaido as president”
I’ll bet Ditz typed that with a straight face.
I think Guaido got about 2 or 3% of the popular vote in the last election his party participated in. He is far right and somewhat extreme in Venezuelan Politics.
Guaido hasn’t ever been a candidate in a presidential election. He was appointed interim president by the National Assembly after it declared the last presidential election void over Maduro having all of his significant opponents declared ineligible to run.
Yes, and since then he has lost the position in the National Assembly that was the basis for that appointment. Since he never took office with effect, they could just appoint somebody else. Guaido’s only strength is the US support in a regime change effort, and US support is ephemeral when convenience of regime change suggests another option.
You seem to be arguing with something I didn’t assert.
I did not mean to argue. I was just extending the thought. Without an election, AND having lost the position that was to be his alternative to election, perhaps he is now just gone.
Just as well. Regime change has never worked out well for the US, even when it gets rid of the regime. In fact, “winning” is the worst outcome for the US. See Syria vs Libya and Somalia. Which outcome would be better for the US in Yemen?
“Juan Guaido is not considered the nation’s present”. What do you mean he’s not a “present”? He sure is “a present” direct from the US.