Here is a bit about the Bushista Machado from an article with facts. She actually probably has committed treason by attending the junta leaders pseudo-inauguration after the 2 day coup against the legitimate Chavez government. I provide all for the evidence. There is her signature scanned and posted for the world to know she endorsed the junta.
Don't you understand that there is a tremendous opposition to Hugo and the revolution underway in Venezuela? How does he tolerate them? Very nicely, actually, compared to what most coup leaders would face in most other countries, thank you. Maybe that is because he is a democrat, and a Christian.
Read this:
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1466 the US Grooming Next Year’s Anti-Chávez Presidential Candidate?
Democracy vs Bush-o-cracy in Venezuela
Wednesday, Jun 01, 2005
By: Jonah Gindin – Venezuelanalysis.com
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According to Machado, Súmate is an objective non-partisan civil association. Súmate is the third NGO founded and directed by Machado, including one that worked with Venezuelan municipalities in the 1990s to privatize homeless shelters. To date, Súmate’s only political experience has been to agitate for the removal of Chávez by way of a recall referendum last August, though Chávez won nonetheless with 60 per cent of the vote. Their controversial role conducting flawed exit polls during the referendum—specifically criticized by the Carter Center and OAS observation missions in Venezuela—and their subsequent rejection of the referendum results, though both the Carter Center and the OAS declared them to be free and fair, have cast doubt on Súmate’s professed “neutrality.” When asked why Súmate has worked exclusively with the Venezuelan opposition since its inception in 2002, Machado said that their overtures to the government were regularly rebuffed. She did not specify whether her presence at the swearing-in of the illegal government of Pedro Carmona during a short-lived April 2002 coup may have sullied her reputation with Chávez’s government.
On April 11th of that year Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez—democratically elected in 1998 and again in 2000—was overthrown in what proved to be a short-lived coup. Before he was restored to power by massive popular protests and loyal elements of the military, however, a “transition government” was set up, and business leader Pedro Carmona Estanga sworn in as provisional President. Carmona’s first act as provisional Venezuelan leader was to abolish the Bolivarian Constitution—ratified by popular referendum in 1999—as well as the Supreme Court, the National Assembly and the Human Rights Ombudsman in what became known as the “Carmona Decree.” Present at Carmona's swearing-in ceremony were several hundred prominent Venezuelans, including business-leaders, media barons, politicians, and members of “civil society,” whose signatures (below) confirmed their attendance. Machado was one of the latter.
"Attendance at the Swearing-in of the Governing Junta." Maria Corina Machado's signature appears bottom left.
Source: Venezuelafoia.info
Less than 48-hours after coming to power, however, Carmona’s illegal junta was overthrown, and as the now defunct April 11th-government sped out the backdoor of the palace into their tinted SUVs and back into Caracas’ posh gated communities, his allies began back-pedaling. In a recent article, Machado told Newsday that she did not know what she was signing, saying she innocently signed a blank piece of paper she had assumed was a reception sheet. Yesterday, her story changed again. Still flushed from her tête-á-tête with George W. Bush, Machado claimed that the Venezuelan government “know
clearly that I did not sign the decree. I was not present at the event,” she said. Yet the evidence would appear to suggest otherwise. . .
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