Q&A: Venezuela’s Opposition Leader on Trump, Maduro, and Why the Ballot Box Isn’t the Answer This Time

Q&A: Venezuela’s opposition leader on Trump, Maduro, and why the ballot box isn’t the answer this time

This Sunday, Venezuelans will go to the polls in the first nationwide elections since the contested presidential election last July. But unlike that election, which by all independent accounts President Nicolás Maduro stole, the country’s embattled opposition has decided this time not to participate at all. Ahead of the vote – which is for local, regional, and legislative positions – I sat down with opposition leader María Corina Machado, who ha…

Machado urges Venezuelans not to vote next Sunday

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has called for a boycott of the May 25 regional and legislative elections, labeling them a 'farce' and a 'trap,' urging the citizenry to stay home. However, others standing up to Nicolás Maduro's regime suggested otherwise.

The opposition leader, María Corina Machado, shared an emotional memory about her journey through the state Apure a year ago, highlighting the massive popular support she received despite the obstacles. Machado related how, due to the blockade of the bridge Maria Nieves by the régimen, they had to cross the river Apure in boat. From that point until her arrival near the river Orinoco, on her way to Amazonas, she was accompanied and “scorched” by…

The majority opposition of Venezuela, grouped in the United Democratic Platform (PUD), reiterated this Thursday its rejection of the legislative and regional elections on Sunday and clarified that it will not push "no boycott" against those elections. "Today we strongly reiterate that we will not participate in the event called for May 25. We will not [...] The entry Unitarian Platform reiterates its rejection of elections and clarifies that it …

The Unitary Platform reiterated that it will not participate in the regional elections and assured that in the country a "formal and transparent negotiation" is required that leads to a "democratic, peaceful and sustainable solution" The PUD entry reiterates that there are no clear and effective guarantees to participate on May 25 #22May was first published in El Impulso.

Venezuelan Communists believe that elections take place in an anti-democratic context