Daniel Di Martino, a
student and Ph.D. in migration, asserts that the referendum for the annexation of Essequibo is a fraud:
"The Maduro regime says that over 10 million Venezuelans voted in today's referendum on annexing the disputed territory controlled by neighboring nation Guyana. This is laughable. So you get an idea, Venezuela's peak total population was about 30 million and nearly 8 million have emigrated, mostly adults.
Moreover, people in the country have seen and posted pictures and videos of the voting centers. It's deserted. Very few people went to vote, and most of them were public employees forced to Do so.