The controls meant that many Venezuelan businesses stopped production because they no longer made a profit, eventually resulting in shortages.Since Brazil began using electronic voting machines in 1996, there has been pelo evidence that they have been used for fraud. Instead, the machines helped eliminate the fraud that once afflicted Brazil’s el

A smooth Venezuelan election that would have led to greater economic opening also suited the country’s Latin American neighbors, including Mr. Maduro’s old allies, the leftist governments of Brazil and Colombia.Opposition candidates and their supporters struggle to find places to gather without harassment from government activists and to get fu

Maduro's decree includes wider executive powers to control the budget, companies and the currency amid a severe economic crisis in the OPEC nation. ^"Many of us, even if we have university degrees, have to work in whatever we can to survive and to support our families who're still in Venezuela," she explains.But her inflexible rhetoric may make it

Social unrest, looting, and violence were on the rise, and in April the government was forced to reduce its workweek to two days in order to save energy (partly because of shortages of hydroelectric power brought about by El Niño-derived drought). Meanwhile, the opposition pushed forward with an effort to put Maduro to a recall vote. By early May

The controls meant that many Venezuelan businesses stopped production because they no longer made a profit, eventually resulting in shortages.The region has received the bulk of Venezuelan migration, leading to an anti-immigration political backlash in some places.Not surprisingly, President Maduro did not take kindly to his rival's move, which he