[News] Five myths about the Venezuelan elections

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  Five myths about the Venezuelan elections

  * Tim Anderson
    <https://english.almayadeen.net/authors/1491380/tim-anderson>
  * Source: Al Mayadeen English
  * August 7, 2024
    -https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/five-myths-about-the-venezuelan-elections

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Here is the lesson for future Venezuelan politicians: Will they join 
national institutionality or simply become the latest creatures of 
comprador coup culture?

In the global culture wars, there persists a notion that independent 
countries must somehow gain approval from large, predatory military or 
financial powers. This of course misses the point that the right to 
self-determination of peoples and the independence of nations 
presupposes separation from and resistance to those same imperial powers.

Ever since the phenomenon of Hugo Chavez in the late 1990s dispensed 
with the moribund two-party system in Venezuela, the great hegemonic 
power to the north has struggled to recognise even one of Chavismo’s 
many electoral victories. Venezuela had long been a source of oil for 
the US war machine 
<https://academic.oup.com/jah/article/99/1/24/854919?login=false> and 
those old certainties were gone.

It is in this important context that we should consider the polemics 
over the 2024 Venezuelan presidential elections, and the rejectionist 
logic of the US government and its proxies. Several western myths have 
been articulated by Washington and then copied by states wishing to 
ingratiate themselves with the US regime.

In this article, I consider the myths of Washington as an honest broker, 
the notion of a Venezuelan ‘dictatorship’ which controls everything, 
including the electoral system, the use of partisan polls, the 
disqualification of political opponents, and the claim that Chavismo 
ruined the country’s economy.

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    1. Washington as an honest broker?

The first myth is the idea that Washington is somehow an authoritative 
arbiter of “democracy and human rights” in other nations. The experience 
of Latin America has dozens of examples of anti-democratic interference 
to suit the interests of the great northern neighbour. In 1889, Cuban 
nationalist Jose Martí observed 
<https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-dirty-war-on-syria-and-the-globalization-of-war-special-offer/5560516> 
the cynical false pretexts mobilized to intervene, steal victory from 
Cuban freedom fighters, create a Spanish-American war, and seize Spanish 
territories in the Caribbean, “They want to provoke a war to have a 
pretext to intervene and, with the authority of being mediator and 
guarantor, to seize the country … There is no more cowardly thing in the 
annals of free people; nor such cold blooded evil”. Since then, there 
have been dozens of US interventions 
<https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/united-states-interventions/>, 
mainly to seize resources or change nationalist governments not fully in 
accord with US regional interests.

Washington has intervened in Venezuela 
<https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14263/> many times since the 1998 
Bolivarian Revolution, which aimed to restore sovereign control over oil 
resources. Washington backed the 2002 coup attempt. 
<https://www.jstor.org/stable/27734144> which kidnapped elected 
President Hugo Chavez, and then ran another failed coup attempt in 2020 
<https://apnews.com/article/miami-us-news-ap-top-news-venezuela-south-america-79346b4e428676424c0e5669c80fc310>. 
As part of their hybrid wars, successive US regimes imposed unilateral 
coercive measures (“sanctions”) in attempts to damage the economy, 
collapse Venezuelan society, and seize the country and its resources. 
Notable aggressions were Obama’s declaration of Venezuela 
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/3/10/obama-declares-venezuela-a-national-security-threat> 
as a “security threat” to the US and Trump’s imposition of multiple 
“sanctions” <https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10715>, 
which he said were expected to collapse the nation 
<https://twitter.com/african_stream/status/1818690351831347516>, paving 
the way for the US to seize its oil. The Biden regime carried on the 
Obama-Trump legacy.

This brief history is enough to demonstrate why Washington can never be 
considered an independent arbiter or mediator; its every move against 
Venezuela is tainted with bad faith and criminal self-interest. 
Washington has been unable to reconcile itself with strongly nationalist 
regimes which reject its hegemonic claims; the chagrin is so much 
greater over nationalist regimes which had been a key energy source. In 
this respect we should compare the CIA’s 1954 coup in Iran 
<https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthrew-irans-democracy-in-four-days> 
(after oil nationalization) with the CIA-backed attempted coup in 
Venezuela 
<https://peoplesworld.org/article/venezuela-2002-the-coup-heard-around-the-world/> 
in 2002 (during partial oil renationalization).

Washington cannot be an honest broker as regards Venezuela.


    2. Doesn’t a Maduro 'dictatorship' control the electoral system?

A common mythical theme in Western reports is that Venezuela under 
Presidents Chavez and Maduro has been a “dictatorship” which also 
controls the electoral system. In fact, the 1999 constitution and the 
subsequent electoral law 
<https://pdba.georgetown.edu/Electoral/Venezuela/LOPE2009.pdf> (updated 
in 2009) established Electoral Power as a separate arm within the state, 
distinct from the Executive. Members of the National Electoral 
Commission 
<https://orinocotribune.com/venezuelan-national-electoral-council-cne-its-origins-and-contemporary-importance/> 
(CNE) are appointed by the National Assembly or the Supreme Court (TSJ).

On top of that, the mechanized voting system is a unique Venezuelan 
invention which builds in security and audits. This system was praised 
<https://www.commentary.org/ben-cohen/jimmy-carter-gives-seal-of-approval-to-venezuela-election/> 
by former US President Jimmy Carter back in 2013, “Venezuela probably 
has the most excellent voting system that I have ever known.”

During the 2024 elections, the Carter Centre, minus its founder, 
reverted to the standard Washington line, as run by US Secretary of 
State Anthony Blinken, 
<https://www.state.gov/assessing-the-results-of-venezuelas-presidential-election/> 
the CNE results could not be credible because they had not published 
(within the first few days) the full disaggregated voting results. This 
became the mantra of ‘fraud’ claims.

While recognising the strong (60%) participation, Blinken said, “The 
CNE’s rapid declaration … came with no supporting evidence. The CNE has 
still not published disaggregated data or any of the vote tally sheets”. 
The Carter Centre similarly argued 
<https://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/2024/venezuela-073024.html>, “the 
authority’s failure to announce disaggregated results by polling station 
constitutes a serious breach of electoral principles”.

In fact, the process was quite normal, and well ahead of US election 
standards. The CNE issued its initial result for Maduro (51.2% after 80% 
of votes counted 
<https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/07/29/nicolas-maduro-claims-victory-in-venezuela-s-presidential-election_6703817_4.html>) 
and a second report on August 2 
<https://www.diario.red/articulo/america-latina/cne-publica-segundo-recuento-9687-dando-victoria-maduro-5195-votos-frente-4318-edmundo-gonzalez/20240802210629033583.html>, 
after 96.87% had been counted. That second report gave Maduro 51.95% 
(6.4 million votes) and 43.18 % (5.3 million) for González. The results 
came despite “massive informatic attacks” on the CNE infrastructure and 
“terrorist” attacks on and the burning of CNE offices and centres of voting.

Contrary to Blinken and the Carter Centre, under the Organic Law of 
Electoral Processes 
<https://pdba.georgetown.edu/Electoral/Venezuela/LOPE2009.pdf> (2009) 
the CNE has to publish full results “within 30 days”. So for the Carter 
Centre to demand these results on 30 July, i.e. within 48 hours, and to 
claim non-publication had “violated numerous provisions” of the law, was 
disingenuous. A week after the election the data and the disputes were 
referred 
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/venezuelas-supreme-court-requests-the-cne-to-deposit-documents-of-presidential-elections/> 
to Venezuela’s Supreme Court (TSJ).

By contrast, the USA has no national electoral body and its final 
results <https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54096399> usually 
take more than two months to finalise. Yet, like Venezuela, the winner 
is announced by election officials and media outlets when one candidate 
is believed to have an “unbeatable lead”. Unlike in Venezuela, in the 
USA there is no direct election of the President, as the final vote 
falls to the states under an Electoral College system. There are five 
examples of US Presidents 
<https://www.history.com/news/presidents-electoral-college-popular-vote> 
(Adams, Hayes, Harrison, G. W. Bush, and Trump) who did not win the 
popular vote but won the election.


    3. Didn’t independent polls predict the defeat of Maduro?

The media warfare before and during 
<https://orinocotribune.com/chavistas-warn-about-escalation-of-media-warfare-against-venezuelas-elections-machado/> 
the elections was intense. US media was in open campaigning mode, with 
the /New York Times/ running headlines like 
<https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/opinion/venezuela-elections-maduro.html>: 
"This Is Venezuela’s Moment. It Needs the World’s Help”. /CNN/, for its 
part, falsely claimed that Maduro threatened a "bloodbath" if he did not 
win; in fact he was referring to planned opposition tactics and their 
long history of violence and non-compliance. In fact, Maduro predicted 
the opposition organised violence the day after the poll. There had been 
25 years 
<https://redaccionrosario.com/2024/08/05/venezuela-25-anos-de-violencia-golpista/> 
of such “golpista” (coup-oriented) violence.

Maduro denounced media misinformation 
<https://www.telesurtv.net/presidente-nicolas-maduro-denuncia-censura-de-medios-de-comunicacion-sobre-la-verdad-de-venezuela/?noamp=available>, 
saying he was trying to prevent a war and that the US-backed opposition 
wanted to convert the country into a neoliberal disaster like Argentina 
under Milei. Nevertheless, /CNN/ argued that the election 
<https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/23/americas/analysis-venezuela-election-maduro-intl-latam/index.html> 
was "a chance to rebuild Venezuela's economic power", while /The 
Financial Times/ claimed 
<https://www.ft.com/content/6d83211a-b537-40f2-8c25-a03aec290ad3> polls 
show a "crushing defeat" was coming for Maduro, if there were a “clean 
vote”.

The polls were weaponised. In the lead-up to the elections, several 
US-commissioned polls (Datanálisis, Delphos, Consultores 21 y ORC 
Consultores) conditioned a narrative that the opposition candidate 
Edmundo Gonzalez 
<https://www.france24.com/es/am%C3%A9rica-latina/20240721-guerra-de-encuestas-tensi%C3%B3n-e-incertidumbre-marcan-el-ambiente-electoral-en-venezuela> 
– a former CIA operative who helped form the notorious death squads 
<https://en.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/politica/revelan-pasado-sanguinario-de-edmundo-gonzalez/> 
in Central America in the 1980s but who was barely known in Venezuela 
<https://www.as-coa.org/articles/poll-tracker-venezuelas-2024-presidential-election> 
until quite recently – was 20 or 30 points ahead 
<https://www.elespectador.com/mundo/elecciones-venezuela-2024/asi-van-las-encuestas-presidenciales-en-venezuela-2024-gonzalez-lleva-ventaja/> 
in public opinionو and therefore Nicolas Maduro could only win by fraud.

The /LA Times/ claimed polls were predicting 
<https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/opinion-venezuelas-president-nicol%C3%A1s-maduro-could-lose-a-landslide-election-but-will-it-matter/ar-BB1qpkgE> 
a landslide for Gonzalez. It said that, for Maduro to win, "given his 
opponent’s 25- to 30-point lead in the polls, would require massive 
fraud". Poll tracker, also citing Dataincorp, Meganálisis and ORC 
Consultores 
<https://www.as-coa.org/articles/poll-tracker-venezuelas-2024-presidential-election> 
gave Gonzalez a huge lead of 50-70% over Maduro's 12-18%.

Western reports studiously avoided polls by Hinterlaces, Paramétrica and 
Ámbito, which predicted 
<https://www.telesurtv.net/encuestas-ubican-a-nicolas-maduro-como-ganador-de-elecciones-en-venezuela/> 
pretty much what the CNE would announce in the early hours of July 29. 
Ámbito in July had Maduro winning with between 51.74% and 71.6% of the 
vote, with Gonzalez securing between 20.5 and 24%. Paramétrica had 
Maduro on 51.74% and Gonzalez on 29.06%. On participation, 68% said they 
would turn out to vote, with their minds focused on the economy. 
Hinterlaces in June had President Maduro leading 
<https://orinocotribune.com/hinterlaces-poll-president-maduro-leads-voter-preference-with-55-6-support-while-far-rights-edmundo-gonzalez-gets-22-1/> 
with 55.6% support, with the far right’s Edmundo González on 22.1%.

There was even a “war of exit polls” 
<https://es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/deportes/elecciones-venezuela-guerra-sondeos-boca-221808334.html>, 
with Hinterlaces giving Maduro 54.6% and Gonzalez 42.5% at 12 midday, 
while the US-oriented Meganálisis gave Gonzalez 65.8% at 3 pm. The 
United States and opposition also cited a 3 pm exit poll which supported 
their claimed victory, conducted by Edison Research 
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/exit-poll-used-by-venezuela-opposition-sourced-from-us-gov-l>, 
a company linked to the CIA. None of this was conclusive.

The US government has notoriously funded media and poll bodies to suit 
its ends. For example, the International Republican Institute (IRI) used 
‘snowball polls’ in 2012 to suggest internal Syrian support for armed 
intervention 
<https://www.iri.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/201220August201720IRI20Syria20Index2C20June201-July2022C202012.pdf> 
during the attempted ‘color revolution’ in Syria. Such deeply biased 
‘polls’, which start with friends and move to friends of friends, have 
no representative validity at all. It is likely that similar techniques 
were used in Venezuela to inflate expectations of victory and then 
claims of fraud when the US-backed candidate did not win.

One crack in this media war was shown in an interview on MSN 
<https://www.msn.com/es-us/noticias/other/maduro-podría-ganar-esta-elección-sin-fraude-electoral-dice-experta/vi-BB1qwc36>, 
where conservative lawyer and international consultant Eglée 
González-Lobato acknowledged that Maduro could win “without electoral 
fraud”. “Venezuela's electoral system is quite robust, leaving enough 
traces for automation experts to detect any errors”, she said.

All candidates except Gonzalez signed a statement 
<https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-candidates-sign-agreement-to-accept-electoral-results-us-backed-opposition-abstains/> 
saying they would accept the CNE’s result. The ‘Unified Platform’, it 
seems, was determined to not recognise 
<https://www.globovision.com/nacional/24589/plataforma-unitaria-cantara-fraude-no-reconocera-resultados-del-cne-sino-sus-propias-actas> 
any results announced by the CNE.  They expected defeat and were crying 
“fraud” well before 
<https://www.globovision.com/nacional/24589/plataforma-unitaria-cantara-fraude-no-reconocera-resultados-del-cne-sino-sus-propias-actas> 
the election.

This writer was one of more than one thousand international guests, 
called to observe the elections. Most reported favourably on the general 
climate in the lead-up to and during the elections, and on the integrity 
of the voting process itself. The Venezuelan government did not allow in 
as observers 
<https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-election-european-union-electoral-observers-maduro-5e05e255f0b67bf9f476aa7a1b889016> 
those who had attacked the country, such as an EU delegation which had 
backed illegal US economic siege measures against the country. 
Nevertheless, Washington and the /BBC /reported that anonymous 
“international observers” had condemned the election. This was highly 
misleading. Consider these favourable and ‘free and fair’ reports from 
Chilean observers 
<https://www.lacacerola.cl/2024/08/05/hubo-fraude-en-las-elecciones-presidenciales-en-venezuela/> 
and South African observers 
<https://www.citizen.co.za/news/news-world/south-african-observers-venezuela-elections-fair/>.


    4. Doesn’t Maduro bar his opponents from running for election?

US sources often cite the disqualification of some Venezuelan candidates 
as an example of the “dictatorship”. In fact, disqualifications are done 
by law and not by executive order. In the past, some far-right 
opposition figures have been disqualified for serious crimes. Leopoldo 
López 
<https://theconversation.com/who-is-leopoldo-lopez-the-newly-freed-opposition-leader-behind-venezuelas-uprising-116336>, 
for example, was convicted and in 2014 sentenced to a long prison term 
for public incitement, criminal conspiracy, and instigating arson and 
criminal damage. The US media presented him as a freedom fighter. López 
was released from jail early in 2017.

In the case of Maria Corina Macahado 
<https://orinocotribune.com/maria-corina-machado-and-the-betrayal-of-venezuela/>, 
the opposition leader who could not run in 2024, the reported reasons 
for her disqualification included decisions of the Supreme Court that:

  * She supported US unilateral sanctions
    <https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/27/venezuela-court-disqualifies-leading-opposition-presidential-candidate>,
    had been involved in corruption, and helped cause losses of
    Venezuela’s foreign assets, including the United States-based oil
    refiner Citgo and chemicals company Monomeros (in Colombia);
  * She was involved
    <https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/01/27/venezuela-s-supreme-court-disqualifies-opposition-leader-from-running-for-president_6469941_4.html>
    in “the corruption plot orchestrated by the usurper Juan Guaido",
    which led to a "criminal blockade of the Bolivarian Republic of
    Venezuela, as well as the shameless dispossession of the companies
    and wealth of the Venezuelan people abroad, with the complicity of
    corrupt governments";
  * She had been an appointed Panamanian diplomat
    <https://x.com/LuisaKnuckles/status/1819503532028187139>, which is
    prohibited under articles 149 and 191 of the constitution,

In many other countries, she would be serving a very long prison 
sentence, not just facing disqualification from public office. For 
example, US Code § 2381 says 
<https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381> that “Whoever, owing 
allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to 
their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or 
elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be 
imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not 
less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under 
the United States.”


    5. Didn’t Chavismo ruin the country’s economy?

It is true that, after the death of Chavez in 2003, many of the 
tremendous social gains <https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/8133/> 
such as the reduction of poverty and extreme poverty were compromised, 
but that was mainly due to the economic warfare carried out against 
Venezuela by the Obama and Trump regimes.

In 2015, Obama declared Venezuela a threat to US security 
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/3/10/obama-declares-venezuela-a-national-security-threat#:~:text=Washington%20slaps%20seven%20officials%20with,calling%20Caracas%20a%20security%20threat.&text=US%20President%20Barack%20Obama%20has,placed%20sanctions%20on%20seven%20officials.>, 
imposing a series of coercive measures on the country. To this, Trump 
added another 200 measures 
<https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10715>, intended to 
bring Venezuela to its knees. The artificial proclamation of unelected 
Juan Guaido as “President” added a device by which the Trump 
administration could steal 
<https://www.reuters.com/article/venezuela-politics-citgo-idUKL1N1ZS16U/> 
billions of dollars in Venezuelan foreign assets, including gold 
reserves held by the Bank of England and the entire Citgo petroleum 
business in the USA.

In 2021, UN rapporteur Alena Douhan reported on the drastic social 
impact <https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15323/> of Washington’s 
unilateral coercive measures (illegal under international law). Those 
wide-reaching “sanctions” against Venezuela had a “devastating” effect 
on the entire population’s living conditions.

Damage to the economy was worst in 2019-2020, when Venezuelan oil export 
earnings (and therefore state capacity for social spending) fell to 1% 
of those in 2012. Salaries fell to very low levels with inflation and 
devaluation of the currency. However, by 2021, oil exports resumed and 
inflation fell 
<https://repositorio.cepal.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/37958eeb-086e-4771-a381-631ab55be76e/content> 
to very low levels, according to CEPAL. In 2022, Iran also helped 
restart <https://thecradle.co/articles-id/3932> some damaged refineries. 
Oil exports continued to grow through 2023 and 2024 
<https://elperiodicodelaenergia.com/venezuela-exporto-276-millones-barriles-petroleo-enero-febrero-2024/>. 
With this growth and better management, the currency stabilized and 
social investment remained very high 
<http://www.psuv.org.ve/temas/noticias/venezuela-se-recupera-esfuerzo-propio-y-reencuentro-empresarial/>, 
as much as 77% of the budget in 2024.

By late 2023, President Maduro said there had been some important 
achievements, and renewed prosperity was on course for 2024. This 
prosperity would be underwritten 
<http://www.psuv.org.ve/portada/presidente-maduro-exalta-ocho-logros-alcanzados-2023-y-augura-un-2024-prosperidad/> 
by economic growth, social cohesion and popular participation. Community 
level education and health programs could advance. Better relations with 
neighbouring Colombia helped stabilize security, alongside support from 
other Latin American nations.

By 2024, Maduro drove the public housing program into the construction 
of more than 5 million new homes, social security was personalised into 
a Homeland card (Carnet de la Patria), which is exercised through a 
phone app and guarantees food, fuel and other subsidised goods and 
services. The opposition and US media called this card an “utterly evil” 
instrument of repression 
<https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2018/11/15/reuters-confirms-the-carnet-de-la-patria-is-utterly-evil/>, 
supposedly because of its surveillance potential; but that claim 
confirmed their intention to dismantle this foundation of social security.

Online sources 
<https://misionverdad.com/venezuela/memoria-y-cuenta-logros-y-metas-alcanzadas-en-2023> 
and electoral pamphlets reminded citizens that, by investment of 
increased oil exports, the government had stabilized the currency, 
increased food production, supported the social missions e.g. providing 
100 million free health consultations, removing illiteracy and 
stimulating community projects and diverse small business.

By January 2024 a Hinterlaces poll showed 
<https://www.eluniversal.com/venezuela/172783/el-82-de-los-venezolanos-considera-que-le-ira-mejor-en-este-2024-segun-hinterlaces> 
that 82% of Venezuelans saw things as getting better in 2024. That 
certainly improved Maduro’s prospects of re-election. On the other side, 
the opposition mostly relied on 
<https://venezuelanalysis.com/columns/the-same-old-path-and-the-dangerous-one/> 
slogans of ‘freedom’ and anti-Chavismo, masking the typical liberal 
plans to sell off the country’s assets and dismantle social security. 
The US backed opposition dared not present publicly a plan that promised 
alarming “structural adjustments."


    National Institutionality or Coup Culture?

On 2 August (5 days after the election) President Maduro referred the 
opposition claims against the CNE – plus complaints over hacking attacks 
on the CNE - to the Supreme Court (TSJ) under a "writ of amparo". The 
TSJ in turn called on all candidates 
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/venezuelas-supreme-court-requests-the-cne-to-deposit-documents-of-presidential-elections/> 
to present their complaints and data. 9 out of 10 did so, except Edmundo 
Gonzalez.

Notwithstanding Washington’s latest fraudulent attempt to declare 
Gonzalez 
<https://www.state.gov/assessing-the-results-of-venezuelas-presidential-election/> 
as “elected president”, Maduro’s re-election internally seems quite 
secure, with the CNE, the National Assembly, and the military, 
announcing their full support, alongside mass rallies in support of 
their institutions and their democracy. Contrary to western media, 
pro-government rallies have been consistently bigger than those of the 
US backed opposition.

US external pressures will continue and aggravate the ongoing split in 
opposition strategies, of either (1) participating in national 
institutions or (2) abandoning that for refuge in North American backed 
coups.

Former opposition leaders Manuel Rosales and Henrique Capriles, both 
linked to the 2002 coup attempt and prosecuted for economic crimes, at 
different times, nevertheless resumed their engagement in the political 
process. Both failed in presidential campaigns but both also enjoyed 
successive terms as governors of the states of Zulia and Miranda, 
respectively.

On the other side, we see failed fake, unelected “president” Juan Guaido 
sitting in Miami, the refuge of many extremist Latin leaders. It seems 
that Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez, if they are not arrested 
and jailed, will join Juan Guaido as cast off agents of coups, on behalf 
of their masters in Washington. Therein lies a lesson for future 
Venezuelan politicians: Will they join national institutionality or 
simply become the latest creatures of comprador coup culture?

The opinions mentioned in this article do not necessarily reflect the 
opinion of Al mayadeen, but rather express the opinion of its writer 
exclusively.
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