![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In an April 22 opinion piece for the Latin American edition of the Spanish daily El Pais, the communications professor Isaac Nahon Serfaty called the Chavista government a "horror show." Serfaty wrote that the regime had no respect for the law or institutional integrity. ![]() Seventeen and a half years on, Venezuela - the country with the biggest oil reserves in the world - is economically and politically on the brink. The clock is ticking for the Bolivarian Revolution announced by Maduro's more charismatic presidential predecessor, the now-deceased Hugo Chavez, after his election in 1998. If the council decides that they are sufficient, a referendum can be held to vote Maduro out of office. This week, the lists of signatures are scheduled to be put before the national electoral council for inspection. The response to the petition has emboldened the opposition, which also won parliamentary elections in December 2015. "The signs suggest that change is on the way." "I'm full of hope," Lopez has written about the petition. Thanks to his mother - who smuggled the petition into the prison where he has been held since 2014 - opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was also able to sign it. Over the past several days, more than 1.5 million Venezuelans have signed a petition for a referendum to recall President Nicolas Maduro. ![]()
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