The Washington Post published off-the-record remarks on Tuesday by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in which he laments the fractured state of Venezuela’s opposition to dictator Nicolás Maduro, quipping that “forty-plus people” think they are the rightful heirs to the presidency.
Venezuelan President Juan Guaidó sent a delegation to Norway for talks with the rogue Nicolás Maduro regime but insisted Sunday that the talks were “mediation.”
Dictator Nicolás Maduro postponed Venezuela’s upcoming presidential election to May 20, claiming this would provide a number of “electoral guarantees,” the country’s National Electoral Council (NEC) announced on Thursday.
Henri Falcón – a former governor, Hugo Chávez supporter, and the leader of the “Progressive Advance” party – has announced his candidacy in the illegitimate Venezuelan presidential election scheduled for April 22.
Hot off the heels of the “largest electoral fraud in the history of Latin America,” Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship has done it again. Defying every major exit poll prior to Sunday, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) secured 17 of the nation’s 23 governorships, with its losses in states like Táchira, governed by socialists who dared to criticize the regime.
Opposition leaders in Venezuela have alleged fraud after electoral authorities claimed that Nicolás Maduro’s socialist party won 17 of 24 governorships in Sunday’s regional elections.
Venezuela’s opposition coalition said on Tuesday it would not participate in talks with the country’s ruling socialist regime, amid suspicion that they are an attempt to detract from global criticism that the country has turned into a dictatorship.
Venezuela’s embattled opposition prepares for primary elections this Sunday in the hope that they can make gains in the upcoming regional elections.
The governor of Venezuela’s inland Amazonas province denounced a “massacre” Wednesday at a prison in his state, alleging that police acting at the behest of the socialist regime attempted to storm the prison and killed 37 inmates in the process.
Protesters in Venezuela speaking to Agence-France Presse Tuesday called the main opposition party’s participation in socialist-controlled elections this year a “mockery” as anti-socialist groups lament dwindling numbers at what were previously thousands-strong elections.
A major fault line in Venezuela’s opposition movement surfaced this week as the socialist elements of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) urge participation in the government’s regional elections, which the center-right opposition rejects as a move legitimizing dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Fresh off the heels of an election the world has rejected as a “sham,” Venezuela banned the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) party from running local candidates in a third of the nation on Tuesday.
Protests across Venezuela are quickly becoming acts of civil disobedience rather than politically organized movements, El Nacional reports.
Members of Venezuela’s anti-socialist opposition took the streets of the nation this weekend to protest a move by the Supreme Court to usurp federal legislative power, nullifying the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
Representatives of Venezuela’s socialist government reportedly abandoned talks with the opposition on Tuesday in a move one opposition member argued made a “mockery of the pope,” who vouched for the talks.
Two senior leaders of an Islamic movement in Morocco that promotes chastity were caught having sex on a beach, police say.
Reeling from a decisive loss in Sunday’s legislative elections, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has planned a “crusade to strengthen the Revolution,” lasting “however many hours it takes” on Tuesday, comprising the heads of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
The anti-socialist Venezuelan opposition has cemented a majority hold on the National Assembly following national elections on Sunday night. While the government has officially accepted the results of the election, many still fear oppression and violence in response to the overwhelming rejection of Chavismo displayed in the polls.
