Venezuela’s Impending Election and its Discontents

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At the end of February 2018, the Venezuelan democratic opposition, loosely grouped in the Mesa de Unidad Democrática or MUD, announced that it will not be represented in the elections convened by the government of Nicolás Maduro for April 22, 2018, and called for a national boycott of what it defined as a fraudulent process. Maduro’s government and the opposition had been negotiating in the Dominican Republic over how to carry out the election, but the process broke down. Pundits and MUD well-wishers agonized over the decision to opt out of the contest.

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