Venezuela Turns Away Journalists on Eve of Planned Anti-Government Rally
We all had been trying to get into Venezuela to cover a major demonstration planned for Thursday. Opposition leaders hope to put a million people in the streets in a show of rejection for the beleaguered socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro, which is dealing with a collapsing economy, the world’s highest inflation rate and a plunging approval rating.
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But much more is at stake on Thursday — which may help explain the crackdown on foreign reporters.
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One aim of the march is to pressure authorities to hold a recall election this year. Should Maduro lose, new elections would be held — and the opposition would stand a good chance of returning to power for the first time since the late Hugo Chavez ushered in Venezuela’s socialist revolution in 1999.
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