June 18, 2024
For the first time in years, Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, faces stiff electoral opposition despite the leader of the opposition being banned from elections in the country.
Are what’s left of the Venezuelans in the country having enough of Mr Maduro? Apparently, the opposition candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, is polling to have 50 percent of the vote heading into the July 28 presidential elections.
This has never been done by any opposition candidate to Maduro. His support has always been solid in Venezuela, despite his mismanagement of the country.
The Maduro regime has been a failure. His people are leaving the country in droves, the country’s rich oil assets are in shambles, and he has bred such a discontent in the Venezuelan social fabric that it is palpable.
Venezuela is as much of a crisis as Haiti without all of the natural disasters and the assassination of its leader.
Criminal gangs have its towns, its public institutions, gold and mineral mines, and borders under siege. People are not safe, but in addition to not being safe, they do not have anywhere to turn to because the government institutions are in disarray.
I don’t know if there will be political change in Venezuela. We have to wait and see. We doubt it, but stranger things have happened.
God be with Venezuela.