The free-market proponent won the contest with more than 90% of the vote. Venezuela’s top court complicated her presidential aspirations in January by affirming her ban, although she has continued campaigning and has rejected suggestions to choose a substitute.Most critically, the result is unlikely to allow the Biden administration to unwind its
Social unrest, looting, and violence were on the rise, and in April the government was forced to reduce its workweek to two days in order to save energy (partly because of shortages of hydroelectric power brought about by El Niño-derived drought). Meanwhile, the opposition pushed forward with an effort to put Maduro to a recall vote. By early May
Maduro was narrowly elected a few months later and re-elected in 2018 to a six-year term in an electoral process widely criticized as fraudulent.Candidates must register by late March, giving Machado and other opposition factions less than three weeks to decide next steps.Univisión announcer Jorge Ramos described his detention following a live int
The free-market proponent won the contest with more than 90% of the vote. Venezuela’s top court complicated her presidential aspirations in January by affirming her ban, although she has continued campaigning and has rejected suggestions to choose a substitute."Many of us, even if we have university degrees, have to work in whatever we can to sur
The opposition is hopeful it can oust the incumbent, whose party has ruled the country for 25 years.The region has received the bulk of Venezuelan migration, leading to an anti-immigration political backlash in some places.Pledging to veto the legislation, Maduro called those who would be freed “terrorists and criminals.” He also had the option