{"id":7191,"date":"2024-03-23T00:53:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T00:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/venezuelan-opposition-names-new-candidate-in-show-of-unity\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T00:53:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T00:53:47","slug":"venezuelan-opposition-names-new-candidate-in-show-of-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/venezuelan-opposition-names-new-candidate-in-show-of-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan Opposition Names New Candidate in Show of Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/03\/22\/multimedia\/22venezuela-opposition-01-zqml\/22venezuela-opposition-01-zqml-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,549&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Venezuelan Opposition Names New Candidate in Show of Unity\" title=\"Venezuelan Opposition Names New Candidate in Show of Unity\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Venezuela\u2019s embattled opposition announced on Friday that it was naming a new candidate to face off against President Nicolas Maduro this summer, giving renewed hope to the country\u2019s push toward democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The country\u2019s highest court in January <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/26\/world\/americas\/venezuela-presidential-election-opposition.html\" title=\"\">barred the previous candidate<\/a>, the former lawmaker Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, from running, leading many Venezuelans to question how free and fair the election would be. The decision raised questions over whether Ms. Machado\u2019s party, Come Venezuela, would try to insist on her candidacy or coalesce around another candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Friday. leaders of several opposition parties announced that Corina Yoris, a philosophy professor, would run instead in the elections on July 28, a move that analysts saw as a surprising show of unity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is huge,\u201d said Laura Dib, who directs the Venezuela program at the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights organization. \u201cIt is truly amazing to see the opposition united around a single strategy and showing that they are not backing off.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In October, Mr. Maduro <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/17\/world\/americas\/us-venezuela-sanctions-elections.html\" title=\"\">signed an accord<\/a> with the country\u2019s opposition and agreed to work toward a free and fair presidential vote. In the agreement, Mr. Maduro said he would hold an election before the end of this year, and, in exchange, the United States lifted some economic sanctions as a sign of good will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But days later, Ms. Machado won more than 90 percent of the vote to choose an opposition candidate, in a primary election run by a commission without the involvement of the government. The decisive results emphasized her popularity and raised the prospect that she could beat Mr. Maduro in a general election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Three months later, the country\u2019s top court, filled with government loyalists, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/26\/world\/americas\/venezuela-presidential-election-opposition.html\" title=\"\">declared Ms. Machado ineligible to run<\/a> over what the judges claimed were financial irregularities that occurred when she was a national legislator. The government also arrested several members of her campaign. Men on motorbikes have attacked supporters at her events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Machado made Friday\u2019s announcement in a news conference alongside Ms. Yoris just days before the March 25 deadline to register.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe have found a person of my total trust, honorable, who is going to fulfill this procedure,\u201d Ms. Machado said. \u201cThis was a decision that arose from within the discussion of the unitary forces and that gives us all confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Yoris was a member of the commission that helped organize October\u2019s primary, raising speculation that the government might not allow her to register as a candidate. The government has questioned the opposition primary\u2019s legitimacy and has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/31\/world\/americas\/maduro-venezuela-election.html\" title=\"\">taken legal aim at its organizers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The fact that the head of another rival opposition party, Omar Barboza, opened the conference was a further show of unity, Ms. Dib said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are heading toward a transition path in Venezuela,\u201d Ms. Yoris said. \u201cWe are all necessary at this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Julie Turkewitz<!-- --> contributed reporting from Santander, Colombia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela\u2019s embattled opposition announced on Friday that it was naming a new candidate to face off against President Nicolas Maduro this summer, giving renewed hope to the country\u2019s push toward democracy. The country\u2019s highest court in January barred the previous candidate, the former lawmaker Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, from running, leading many Venezuelans to question how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/03\/22\/multimedia\/22venezuela-opposition-01-zqml\/22venezuela-opposition-01-zqml-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2309,723,5118,443,4331,4843],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7193,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions\/7193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}