The controls meant that many Venezuelan businesses stopped production because they pelo longer made a profit, eventually resulting in shortages.Opposition candidates and their supporters struggle to find places to gather without harassment from government activists and to get fuel to travel across the country.Mr. Bolsonaro’s broadsides against w… Read More

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.The valleys and hill ranges of the northwest lie east of Lake Maracaibo and form, in pa… Read More

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… Read More

He bolstered his portfolio with the purchase of SolarCity in 2016 and cemented his standing as a leader of industry by taking on an advisory role in the early days of President Donald Trump's administration.Brazil is the only country to use a fully digital voting system without paper backups. Mr. Bolsonaro has seized on that as a crucial flaw that … Read More

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.[150] The State Department also alleges that Maduro expelled authorized foreign companies from the mining… Read More