Edmundo González Urrutia: We Have Teams Working On Transitional Justice
Meet the opposition’s candidate: the former diplomat supported by María Corina Machado who could become the unlikely leader of a democratic transition in Venezuela.
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Across the Plains and Into the Jungle
Despite being banned from running for office, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s campaign supporting the candidacy of former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia has taken on epic proportion
The Epic of María Corina
Almost like the opening lines of Venezuelan national epic Doña Bárbara, Machado arrived on Wednesday to the rural state of Apure in a “curiara” wooden boat after Chavista sympathizers blocked the passage on the bridge that connects Guárico with the state. On Thursday, Machado -once again finding State-sponsored obstacles- crossed the Orinoco river in a curiara and arrived to Amazonas, Venezuela’s most remote state.
The halo of cell phones’ flashlights, in a rural Venezuela that faces multiple daily blackouts for several hours, has been one of the most powerful visual milestones of a campaign that -despite the censorship of traditional media- is extremely communicational. This was in Apure on Wednesday night:
Watching González Urrutia’s First Rally from the Top of a Tree
A new mass event, this time including presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, brings the María Corina phenomenon closer to the capital in a former Chavista stronghold
Hasta el final: How María Corina’s Mutation Overturned Venezuelan Politics
María Corina Machado’s ability to adapt has turned opposition politics on its head and has subverted the meaning of elections in Venezuela: Can she turn that movement into something more after July 28th?
Climate Change Joins Venezuela’s Political Fuss
While the government blames wildfires on the opposition and blackouts on climate change, experts doubt that nature is behind the increase in water and electric cuts
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