Humanitarian agencies are now studying Venezuela's using formal tools designed to quantify hunger crises in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. They find Venezuela's most vulnerable areas are fast approaching a serious humanitarian crisis.
In the Venezuelan justice system, people are represented by three separate yet equally important groups: Prosecutors and Judges, who handle the entire process and intelligence officers, who like to meddle with it.
No, we don't really think tightening U.S. sanctions against corrupt Venezuelan officials, as a bipartisan group on the hill proposes, will destabilize the Maduro regime. It'll feel good for sure, though.
As CNE announces the rules for obtaining official party status, we know full well the way this game is going to shake out. Because we've seen CNE create bizarrely convoluted rules plainly designed to trip the opposition up.
A skittish government has started creating arbitrary obstacles to granting official status as a party, meaning the ballot of the future will be nothing like the crowded ballots of yesteryear.
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