It’s been a year since seven-year-old
Guellermo Gonzalez’s family left their home in Venezuela for a new life in
Toronto — and his parents’ reasoning, to him, was simple. “Because they’re
killing people,” he said. The family was among thousands of Venezualan ex-pats
in Toronto who turned out on Sunday to participate in what some called an act
of civil disobedience — an unofficial global referendum. Back in Venezuela, 90
people are believed dead and 1,500 have been injured since late March in protests
against the government of embattled President Nicolas Maduro. Since 2014, the
country has been in a declining state of political and economic upheaval. Now,
in what his adversaries call a shift to dictatorship, Maduro is pushing to
re-write their constitution. More…
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