Brazil is pulling out of a South American
mission to observe crucial legislative elections in Venezuela over what it says
a lack of guarantees by the socialist government and its veto of the choice to
head the delegation. Brazil's highest electoral tribunal said Tuesday that a
months-long attempt to organize a mission under the auspices of the Union of
South American Nations had been frustrated by Venezuela's refusal to accept the
group's choice of Brazilian jurist and politician Nelson Jobim to lead the
mission. The decision by Latin America's largest democracy to pull its support
comes as pressure is building on President Nicolas Maduro to allow outside
observation of what's shaping up to be a hard-fought contest that already has
some on both sides talking of fraud by their opponents. More…
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