Venezuela Opposition Says Country Done With Maduro's 'Bolivarian Socialism'

It is time to retire the old anti-imperialist, anti-capital rhetoric of Nicolas Maduro. Venezuelans are ready. So says two of the country’s opposition congressmen who promised Wednesday to continue pressuring the United Socialist Part of Venezuela (PSUV) to put a recall referendum vote before the people this year. “We believe there will be a referendum vote this year. There is no other possibility. The situation is unbearable,” said Juan Andrés Mejía, a congressman from the Voluntad Popular the party of Leopoldo Lopez, who has been a political prisoner of the state since 2014. “The government has no choice but to give the possibility for change, and a referendum vote is the best strategy. Maduro keeps saying that we are planning a coup. But this is a non violent struggle that we are planning in Venezuela. We want to let the people decide what they want for the future: if they want to continue this disaster or choose a different path. We know they want to choose a different path,” he said during a teleconference on Wednesday by the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington. More…