This is probably the biggest electoral fraud in the history of Latin America, at least in modern times in the 21st century.

To understand Venezuela's disputed election and the bigger picture of what's really going on in the region

I sit down with leading security expert Joseph Humier.

Russia, Iran and China, these three actors start to form their alliance and start to create Venezuela as a platform to attack the United States from all throughout Latin America.

He's executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society and visiting fellow at the Heritage

Foundation.

This is the ace under the sleeve of Nicholas Maduro.

This is American Thought Leaders and I'm Yanya Kelleck. Joseph He Meyer, such a pleasure to have you on American thought leaders.

No, it's a pleasure to be here, I'm honored.

We were going to talk about China encroachment into South America.

We were going to talk about the Iran nexus.

But really, the thing to talk about is Venezuela.

We're going to have you back on those things. I mean, it's a remarkable situation. We have an

election at a time where there wasn't supposed to be one and it's an election that's

highly contested and we don't actually know what's going to happen.

It's uncertain.

Break it down for me.

Yeah, so a lot of things and I'm going to try to distill this into kind of a shorter explanation

but Venezuela's already gone through 25 years of

socialist rule, autocratic rule, and has been devolving throughout that time.

They've held many sham elections in the past you can go back to at least 2013 some go back even further

To where the elections were fraudulent and this has been verified by by, has been verified by multilateral organizations.

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