Headline : Maduro Undermines Upcoming Elections

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“We will also work with our partners to uphold the democratic process as it offers the best hope to address Venezuela’s ongoing political, economic, and humanitarian crisis,” said State Spokesperson Miller.

Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro has announced he will seek a third 6-year term as president. But so far there is nothing to suggest that the vote scheduled for July will be free or fair. Indeed, President Maduro and his representatives have detained two members of the leading opposition candidate’s campaign and issued warrants for seven others.

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, 56, won an opposition primary vote overwhelmingly last year. But she was declared ineligible and banned from public office for 15 years by courts loyal to Maduro on spurious charges of corruption. Machado nevertheless kept campaigning, and recently named 80-year-old university professor Corina Yoris as her replacement. But the opposition coalition said its bid to register Yoris was unsuccessful.

This “represents a disturbing escalation of repression against Venezuela’s opposition parties,” declared State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller in a statement.

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