María Corina Machado, who won a Venezuelan opposition presidential primary with 92 percent of the vote, called Corina Yori “an honorable person whom I trust.”
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, left, endorses Corina Yoris Villasana to challenge authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro during a news conference Friday in Caracas. Maduro's government had barred Machado from running in the July election. in this year’s election, said Friday she would end her effort to get on the ballot and instead throw her support behind a substitute candidate.
“We have found an honorable person whom I trust,” Machado told reporters. “My fight is not over. We are going to fight until the last day.After months of harassment by Venezuela’s socialist government, and days before registration for the July election is due to close, Machado encouraged her supporters to vote for Corina Yoris Villasana, a comparatively low-profile academic who has been approved to run.
Yoris, 79, is a professor of logic and debating theory who has taught at Spain’s University of Salamanca and other institutions, Machado’s team said. She has never held political office.She said Friday the country was headed toward a “transition” and that “we all need to walk this together.” She had yet to register as a candidate.in December with more than 92 percent of the vote.
Two members of her team were arrested this week on accusations of planning violent acts against the government and arrest warrants were issued for seven more.
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