Saturday, October 14, 2017

Venezuela Votes for Governors in a ‘Deficient Democracy’


For weeks, Alejandro Feo la Cruz, a former opposition mayor who is running for governor, has crisscrossed his state in Venezuela with a simple message: The country’s ruling party can no longer feed its own people. Few disagree with him here in the seaside city of Puerto Cabello. Its container port once fed Venezuela but now sits largely empty, and its streets raged with protests against President Nicolás Maduro for months this year. Polls show that Mr. Feo la Cruz — like most opposition candidates for the governorships up for grabs in all 23 Venezuelan states on Sunday — should be a shoo-in. More…

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