Venezuelan opposition splits as the coalition led by María Corina Machado insists on boycotting the upcoming elections

A minority sector of the Venezuelan democratic opposition is determined to participate in the regional and parliamentary elections set up for May by Chavismo, despite the...

Last Wednesday, a sector of the Venezuelan opposition, led by former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, launched the Decide network, an acronym for Citizen Defense of Democracy. A movement that, contrary to what the coalition led by María Corina Machado dictates, proposes to participate in the next regional and parliamentary elections on May 25. “We have no other way,” Capriles insisted from an auditorium of the Central University of Vene…

The Unitary Democratic Platform reiterated that, there are no electoral conditions to participate in the elections of May 25, regarding the launch of the Red Decide, in which various leaders of the parties that make up the opposition bloc have gathered. In a statement on their social networks, the PUD reaffirmed that they will seek to defend the truth of last July 28. They estimate that the call for regional elections is one. “a hasty, unjust an…

News of the Day and the Hour Latest News of the day The former governor of Miranda, Henrique Capriles, expressed his concern this Wednesday about the impact of the sanctions imposed recently by the United States against Venezuela, particularly in the oil sector and the tensions with foreign companies. "Who can agree that this people will pass more snoring? What more sacrifice can be asked of the people in this country?", Capriles questioned dur…

On Wednesday, a group of Venezuelan opponents presented the Red Decide (Defensa Ciudadana de la Democracia), a movement that aims to defend the vote and stimulate participation in the legislative and regional elections on 25 May, rejected by the main anti-Chavista leaders. The movement is made up of opponents of "different tendencies" and "social activists of multiple origins" -including the two-time presidential candidate Henrique Capriles-, wh…

Red Decide was presented Wednesday at the Central University of Venezuela, in Caracas, and has the support of well-known opposition politicians, such as former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski and journalist Jesus Torrealba, secretary general of the defunct opposition alliance Mesa de Unidad Democrática. The presentation took place despite the fact that the opposition leaders, Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia, a…