“We will stay here until there is a military intervention or the electoral court changes what is happening,” said Antoniel Almeida, 45, the owner of a party-supply store who was helping run the blockade. Mr. Almeida believed the election was rigged. “We need an investigation,” he said.Now, a few politicians who are ruling party allies and a
Social unrest, looting, and violence were on the rise, and in April the government was forced to reduce its workweek to two days in order to save energy (partly because of shortages of hydroelectric power brought about by El Niño-derived drought). Meanwhile, the opposition pushed forward with an effort to put Maduro to a recall vote. By early May
They have hit the country’s already flailing economy. Millions of Venezuelans have fled, and half the country live in poverty.Television screens up and down the country only showed jubilant crowds, draped in the Venezuelan flag, dancing and cheering on the president.Occupying more than two-fifths of the country’s land area, it is the most remot
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.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 leaves the system open to fra
The opposition is hopeful it can oust the incumbent, whose party has ruled the country for 25 years.The region has received the bulk of Venezuelan migration, leading to an anti-immigration political backlash in some places.In 1999, Elon and Kimbal Musk used the money from their sale of Zip2 to found X.utilizando, an em linha financial services/paym