prompted a devastating national strike that cost Venezuela 10% of its gross domestic product last year and culminated in the bitter struggle to stage the recall referendum. “We need to reconcile.

institutional change of direction in Venezuela is an article in the late president Hugo Chávez’s own constitution that allows for a recall referendum of the president. Over the past several ...

OPPONENTS of President Hugo Chávez have claimed that fraud thwarted their recent attempt to remove him from office in a recall referendum. Venezuela's election agency declared that Mr Chávez won ...

Nicolas Maduro's six-year term ends in January 2019 ... opposition's proposal to hold a referendum to remove President Nicolas Maduro from office. It accused the leaders of the recall referendum ...

Demonstrators took to the streets Wednesday to demand a recall referendum on President Nicolás Maduro, accusing election officials of dragging their feet in scheduling one. Venezuela’s ...

Setting up a showdown in this politically divided country, election authorities announced Tuesday evening that a referendum that ... aimed at redistributing Venezuela’s vast oil wealth to ...

Caracas, Venezuela. Feb 9, 2004 (Venezuelanalysis.com).- The process of validation of signatures for a possible recall referendum on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and on several lawmakers continues ...

Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski has claimed that the rightwing Roundtable of Democratic Unity (MUD) coalition has collected more than 1.5 million signatures in support of a ...

“The recall referendum is absolutely blocked,” Luis Lander, director of the independent Venezuelan Electoral Observatory, said this week. “The conditions make it absolutely and totally ...

On March 29, the Venezuelan Supreme Court effectively ... majority of government supporters—has deliberately stalled a recall referendum on President Nicolás Maduro. It has not organized ...