Venezuela: How important is tomorrow’s election? UPDATED

According to star political consultant J.J. Rendón, “the most important of all” 27 presidential campaigns he’s been involved with.

Important enough he’s working pro-bono.

You can watch the interview in Spanish,
part 1,

part 2,

part 3,

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In the interview, Rendón forecasted that Capriles will win by a wide enough margin that fraud won’t matter. Last October Capriles got 6 million votes.

The army’s setting up the polling places:

Venezuelan citizens living in Florida travelled to New Orleans to vote at that consulate.

I stand by my prediction, but I fervently hope J.J. Rendón is right.

UPDATE,
Right on time for the polls to open, Chavista gangs take over electrical power plants (my translation: if you use it, please link to this post and credit me),

The Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV, Venezuelan United Socialist Party, the chavistas) mobilized its militants to take over the electrical power plants, which it would do in complicity with the Army, as the government announced that the military were in charge of protecting the locations.

The article goes in detail on how the government is making sure Maduro is “elected.”

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