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This month, for the first time in a decade, Venezuela will hold an election in which Maduro’s government is being challenged by an opposition with a credible chance of winning.
A Meganálisis poll of 1,007 people in Venezuela from 8 to 11 August found that 93% of respondents believe Maduro lost the election. Venezuelans who responded that they were happy were 2.8%, and the poll found that 40% hoped to leave the country before the end of 2024. [42]
As prospects of political change diminished in Venezuela, a July 2019 poll by Venezuelan-pollster Consultares 21 estimated that between 4.7 and 6 million Venezuelans had left the country. [25] By this point, the Venezuelan refugee crisis was considered the second-worst in the world, behind that from the Syrian Civil War . [ 58 ]
The US has given Guaidó control of "key Venezuelan bank accounts", [412] and has said it will give Guaidó control of US assets once his administration is in power. [ 405 ] The Portuguese bank Novo Banco stopped Maduro's attempt to transfer over US$1 billion [ 414 ] through BANDES subsidiary, Banco Bandes Uruguay, in early 2019.
Election officials and Venezuela's top court say the July 28 vote was won by socialist Maduro, who has been in power since 2013. The opposition say tallies collected by its observers show a ...
The report says, "Venezuela is the country with the poorest performance of all countries analyzed, showing decreasing trends in the performance of many areas in relation to last year. The country ranks last in the surrender of accounts by the government due to an increasing concentration of executive power and a weakened checks and balances."
Here are the voices of some Venezuelans living abroad. Some have carved out new lives; some hope to return — someday. COLOMBIA. Most Venezuelans who have left in the past decade have settled in Colombia, where the government has set up a program to grant them legal residency status and incorporate them into the formal economy.
More than 21 million Venezuelans are registered to vote, but millions of them won’t be able to participate because they are outside the country. More than 7.7 million Venezuelans have fled to ...