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Caracas. August 2. Hours ago.

Maduro's Forces shot a Citizen.

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María Corina Machado announced that she is in hiding because she fears for her life.

In a writing published this Thursday 1A in the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal, the leader expressed her concern.

"I write this from hiding, fearing for my life, my freedom and that of my compatriots under the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro," he wrote.

"I could be captured as I write these words," Machado added in her message.

He reiterated that "Maduro did not win the Venezuelan presidential elections on Sunday" and stressed that he can "prove it."

"I have records obtained directly from more than 80% of the polling stations ," highlighted the opposition leader.

He also denounced the repression and persecution of the Maduro government against popular protests rejecting fraud.

"Repression must stop immediately to facilitate the transition to democracy ," said Machado.

"We will not rest until we are free," he concluded.

🇪🇺 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 If China is rising and America stagnating, Europe is gambling with a steep, shocking decline into poverty and irrelevance. | Palladium Magazine

🔶️ Energy scarcity, aging workforces, and institutional paralysis don't combine to create social-democratic utopia but a closed, deindustrializing society:

🔶️ Europe has set itself up to lose the two most basic ingredients for industrial competitiveness and sustainability: cheap energy and cheap labor.

🔶️ You can maybe maintain an industrial society by offsetting one against the other, but to maintain one with neither is ludicrous.

🔶️ China has coal. America has fracking. But Europe's energy strategy is to install solar panels on the world's least sunny continent and build windmills that don't make sense anywhere in the world.

🔶️ This is almost explicitly the opposite of a strategy for cheap energy.

🔶️ European countries have banned fracking and failed to pursue oil and gas exploration opportunities, while the deal for cheap Russian gas has been exploded by war in Ukraine.

🔶️ Meanwhile, Germany shut down its nuclear plants and other countries are planning to follow.

🔶️ That some peripheral European economies like Finland, Poland, or Romania are pursuing new nuclear plants just underscores the problem of a future without nuclear in larger economies like Germany, Italy, and Spain.

🔶️ Except for Japan and South Korea, the world's oldest countries are all European. Nor are European fertility rates anything to brag about.

🔶️ There is no amount of immigration that can make up for such wide and deep aging of the workforce.

🔶️ Aging populations and social democratic ennoscriptments might work with a growing economy, but without it, they just lead to a dysfunctional, extractive political economy where the old oppress the young.

🔶️ The resulting political gridlock and institutional paralysis is perhaps Europe's single biggest problem, because it makes solutions and reforms extremely hard to implement.

🔶️ Europe's energy crisis, for example, could be solved almost literally just with a few strokes of a pen.

🔶️ This looming European decline is not a cause for celebration in America or China. Europe is not a cautionary tale, but the canary in the coal mine for aging industrial societies that do not reform.

https://fxtwitter.com/palladiummag/status/1818979675034501428

🗳 🇻🇪 🌎 Updated International reactions to the results of the Venezuelan election

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🇺🇸 🇨🇳 How the US and its allies lost the battle for drones

🔶️ Most of commonly used drones were invented in the US, Japan and Europe but almost all are now made in China

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/30/1095439/usa-economic-security-competitiveness/

Maduro on arrests in Venezuela “All the guarimberos go to Tocorón and Tocuyito.”

"We have 1,200 captured and we are looking for 1,000 more and we are going to grab them all (...) We are grabbing them one by one and there will be no forgiveness," he stated.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/VenezuelaNewsNetwork/12103