Venezuela's Journey Toward Real Democracy - Venezuelanalysis

Venezuela's Journey Toward Real Democracy - Venezuelanalysis

The term “democracy” triggers different reactions when it comes to Venezuela. For local far-right forces, democracy has been nonexistent since 1998 and can only be restored by dismantling everything that evokes popular power, self-determination and social justice.  In the hawkish eyes of the United States, “democracy” is an excuse to punish sovereign nations with economic sanctions and blockades until regime change is achieved. Whether elections…

On Thursday, former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles defended his candidacy as a deputy to the Venezuelan Parliament and asked to vote in the elections of May 25 in the middle of a call for boycott by the main opposition coalition. The ex-rival of the late President Hugo Chávez in 2012, and of the current President Nicolás Maduro in 2013, Capriles was expelled in mid-April from the First Justice party (PJ, of which he is one of the found…

The leader of the Lápiz Alliance does not trust the CNE, but still runs for the elections of May 25 where he aspires to be elected deputy. I will not self-exclude my vote,” he said in an interview with Crónica Uno. Caracas. For the opponent Antonio Ecarri, Venezuela goes through a dangerous [...] La entrada Antonio Ecarri: “Venezuela needs a reconciliation pact” aparece primero en Crónica Uno - The facts as they are

Former presidential candidate Henrique Caprile defended his candidacy as a deputy to the Venezuelan Parliament. "We must vote as an act of resistance, of struggle," he said.

(EFE).- The opponent and candidate for the Venezuelan Parliament Henrique Capriles ruled out this Thursday the possibility of forming a new political party after confirming the activation of the Union and Change electoral card for the legislative and regional elections on 25 May, in which antichavistas who supported Edmundo González Urrutia are grouped together [...] The entry Will a new political party form? This said Capriles after the expulsi…

The opponent, Henrique Capriles, confirmed this Thursday the lifting of the political disqualification maintained by the Comptroller General against him, imposed in 2017 for a period of 15 years, as well as his candidacy for national deputy for the legislative and regional elections, scheduled for May 25. "After eight years disqualified [...] The entry Capriles confirms his candidacy for deputy was first published in Foco Informativa.