from Stamau123@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 26 Jul 2024 09:56
https://lemmy.world/post/17967444
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The future of Venezuela is on the line. Voters will decide Sunday whether to reelect President Nicolas Maduro, whose 11 years in office have been beset by crisis, or allow the opposition a chance to deliver on a promise to undo the ruling party’s policies that caused economic collapse and forced millions to emigrate.
Historically fractured opposition parties have coalesced behind a single candidate, giving the United Socialist Party of Venezuela its most serious electoral challenge in a presidential election in decades.
Maduro is being challenged by former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, who represents the resurgent opposition, and eight other candidates. Supporters of Maduro and Gonzalez marked the end of the official campaign season Thursday with massive demonstrations in the capital, Caracas.
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If they want economic stability they should choose the USA (CIA) candidate (his nickname does not matter)
In before Maduro gets 113% of the vote
Is there any evidence that sanctions like these actually achieve their stated goals? In this case, they certainly don’t seem to have worked. So, why double down?
The Cuban government says no. Also, they’ve invited another private company to open up a resort hotel on their coast.
He looks like the president in Pálpito
The radical right is once again being expected to vote for a candidate like Urrutia simply because he is not Maduro. The centrists try to placate the right that they'll get a better candidate in the future, but for now they just can't let Maduro retain power and continue to destroy the country.
I'm sorry, but until the centrists are willing to nominate someone whose policies will be very popular with the people, they will continue to lose.
Nobody that isn’t a radical is going to candidate for that spot.