VENEZUELA
Venezuela’s jailed, exiled or barred opposition politicians
February 20, 2018 - Venezuela’s most popular opposition leaders are almost all sidelined from the country’s April 22 presidential election – jailed, driven into exile or barred from office.
That has left the broad coalition of parties lacking an obvious flag-bearer and likely to boycott the vote, which they say has been rigged to guarantee a victory for President Nicolas Maduro.
Maduro, who became president after the death of Hugo Chavez in 2013, is seeking another six-year term to further a so-called socialist revolution that has given way to the worst economic crisis in the country’s history.