Venezuela is holding a presidential election on Sunday that could bring dramatic change to the nation, if the opposition candidate can really knock out longtime President Nicolás Maduro.
Residents and community organizers take the street Wednesday to show support for opposition candidate in Venezuela's presidential election, Edmundo Gónzalez Urrutia, in the neighborhood of La Vega, in Venezuela's capital of Caracas.
Its most brazen move was to ban popular opposition leader María Corina Machado from taking part in the election. It also placed a series ofon the 5.5 million voting-age Venezuelans living abroad — most of whom oppose Maduro — that will prevent most of them from casting ballots on Sunday. “We were a rich country, and it just isn’t fair that this one man has brought us this disaster,” María Lagos, an ER nurse, told NPR after attending an opposition rally on July 21. “That’s why I’m voting for González.”
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