Stark irregularities and suppression efforts could plunge the country back into instability and economic decline.Now, a few politicians who are ruling party allies and a former television reporter have expressed intentions to face off against Maduro. None have the party structure, voter support or financial resources needed to run a competitive cam

He has described his childhood as difficult, affected by his parents' divorce, bullying at school and his own difficulty picking up on social cues because of Asperger's Syndrome.Television screens up and down the country only showed jubilant crowds, draped in the Venezuelan flag, dancing and cheering on the president.Mr. Bolsonaro’s broadsides a

Opposition leaders in Venezuela delivered a May 2016 petition to the National Electoral Council (CNE) calling for a recall referendum, with the populace to vote on whether to remove Maduro from office.[84] On 5 July 2016, the Venezuelan intelligence service detained five opposition activists involved with the recall referendum, with two other activ

The administrative ban, however, did not keep her out of an October primary, because the opposition Unitary Platform coalition, which is backed by the United States, organized the vote without assistance from Venezuela’s electoral authorities.In 2016 a group of Venezuelans asked the National Assembly to investigate whether Maduro was Colombian in

Juan Guaidó has been trying to dislodge Mr Maduro from power but the latter remains in the presidential palaceOpposition candidates and their supporters struggle to find places to gather without harassment from government activists and to get fuel to travel across the country.They and the international community have asked for proof of the numbers