Venezuela's Last Flickers of Democracy
Can you explain what Sunday’s vote was about?
On Sunday, the chavista government led by President Nicolás Maduro held a one-sided “election” to a Constituent Assembly – a supremely powerful, 545-seat institution with the power to revise, or even scrap, the country’s constitution. With Venezuela reeling from crippling social and economic crises as well as four months of almost daily opposition-led protests, the government is playing the Constituent Assembly card in a bid to cement its grip on power.
Can the vote be described as a free, fair and democratic election?
In the conventional sense of the word, Sunday’s vote was not an election.… Seguir leyendo »