It’s chaos in Caracas as voters erupt over Venezuela’s controversial election results. We are going to see what happened over the weekend and how it’s all part of a massive populist clash in Venezuela that shows no signs of ending any time soon.
– Venezuela held national elections, marking a challenging contest for President Nicolas Maduro, who has ruled since 2013.
– Official results declared Maduro the winner, but there were discrepancies between these results and exit polls, prompting concerns from the US State Department about the election’s integrity.
– Venezuela’s political landscape reflects a clash between two populisms: one viewing the threat as external (foreign interference), and the other internal (domestic governance).
Venezuela held its national elections on Sunday. This turned out to be the toughest election yet for Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, who has ruled since 2013. The opposition campaign, led by Edmundo González, attracted widespread support throughout Venezuela, as well as abroad. Many were predicting that Sunday would represent a showdown between a growing anti-socialist coalition in Venezuela and Maduro’s government, which controls all public institutions throughout the nation and has been accused of blatant election rigging in the past.
The elections were about as controversial as you would expect. While the official results have declared Maduro the winner, it’s being widely reported that the final results were widely discrepant from the initial exit polling data, which showed the opposition leader with a massive lead. Secretary Anthony Blinken and the US State Department have voiced their concerns over the integrity of the election and the election process.
Some are actually blaming Biden for this because many see the election as a fallout from a deal that Biden struck with Venezuela some months back. Biden lifted a number of the sanctions against Venezuela in exchange for promises of fair elections. Many are condemning the Biden administration for their naive and ineffective foreign policy. What’s happening in Venezuela is a very deep, complex situation.
In many respects, Venezuela has become over the last two decades a tale of two different forms of populism: one populism sees the political threat as an external threat, whereas the other populism sees the threat as internal, coming from within. In Venezuela there is a growing clash between two very different worlds and world orders.
The unipolar west, which is often referred to as the collective west, the United States and Europe, sought to impose a one-size-fits-all liberal globalist order on the whole world. While they claimed that such an imposition was ‘voluntary’ among member nations, many nations, especially those in Latin America, feel as if they are really nothing more than a client state inside the American-led hegemon with their leaders more beholden to the will of bureaucrats in Washington DC than they are to the will of Venezuelans.
This tension and growing gap between the Venezuelan people and the Venezuelan leaders is what Hugo Chavez originally exploited back in the late 90s. Chavez led a populist-left revolt that married socialist economic policies with Venezuelan national sovereignty that sought to overthrow a Venezuelan ruling elite that were supposedly more interested in doing the will of Washington and the will of the Venezuelan people!
Maduro has only continued that populist paradigm shift and made it even stronger. Chavez and Maduro have successfully redefined the enemy as a foreign threat, namely the dictatorial antics of the bureaucrats in DC and the architects of unipolarity, this one-size-fits all world order that Venezuela is being forced into. Maduro has made it clear that it is his intention to join the growing economic alliance BRICS, which consists of nearly 50% of the world’s population and global GDP.
Venezuela’s integration into BRICS would only end up solidifying the bloc’s power over oil and the vast majority of the world’s oil reserves. BRICS, with the recent inclusion of three Opec nations (Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Iran), is already the oil powerhouse of the planet, producing nearly 50% of the world’s oil supply. With the inclusion of Venezuela, which has the largest oil reserves in the world, BRICS would be the undisputed lord of the world’s oil reserves.
Washington, which is the head of the unipolar world order, has no interest in seeing Venezuela further integrated into the growing multipolar world order. That only ends up further exacerbating the anti-Washington, anti-unipolar sentiments that Maduro and the populist socialists are able to effectively whip up among the Venezuelan people.
More Venezuelans are concerned that Maduro and the socialist government have no plans to ever leave. It is commonly said, ‘you can vote your way into socialism, but you can’t vote your way out!’ Once a country is in, nothing changes until the regime collapses. That’s what many Venezuelans voted for yesterday. What we are seeing in Venezuela right now appears to be a major clash between two nationalist populist factions in the nation. Regardless of what happens from their elections, the clash between these two populist factions is not about to end any time soon!
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