by Peter Schiff, Schiff Gold:

“I speak to you with the calmness of the truth,” Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo González told supporters, who had gathered outside his campaign headquarters in Caracas. “We have in our hands the tally sheets that demonstrate our categorical and mathematically irreversible victory.”

The announcement came after González was formally declared the loser in Sunday’s election, according to Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (NEC).

But many suspect the victorious Socialist Party holds the NEC under its thumb. Opponents claim the agency is spilling out lies in a desperate attempt to maintain the Party’s 25 years of continuous rule.