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Venezuela opposition begins campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro
Source: Reuters
Venezuela opposition begins campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro
Reuters in Caracas
Tuesday 8 March 2016 16.53 GMT
Venezuela’s opposition alliance has launched a campaign to oust President Nicolás Maduro, vowing to hold protest rallies and push for both a recall referendum and constitutional amendment to end his presidency.
“Change is coming and no one can stop it,” the head of the Democratic Unity coalition, Jesús Torrealba, told a news conference.
Hungry for power after 17 years of socialist rule begun by the late Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s opposition capitalized on public ire over the crisis-hit economy to win control of the National Assembly legislature in December.
Now it is counting on a multi-pronged attack against Chavez’s successor to bring him down halfway through his six-year term in the South American Opec member nation.
Reading a communique from the coalition, Torrealba said its more than two dozen parties had decided unanimously to activate “all the mechanisms for change” in Venezuela’s constitution in search of a “national unity government”.
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Reuters in Caracas
Tuesday 8 March 2016 16.53 GMT
Venezuela’s opposition alliance has launched a campaign to oust President Nicolás Maduro, vowing to hold protest rallies and push for both a recall referendum and constitutional amendment to end his presidency.
“Change is coming and no one can stop it,” the head of the Democratic Unity coalition, Jesús Torrealba, told a news conference.
Hungry for power after 17 years of socialist rule begun by the late Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s opposition capitalized on public ire over the crisis-hit economy to win control of the National Assembly legislature in December.
Now it is counting on a multi-pronged attack against Chavez’s successor to bring him down halfway through his six-year term in the South American Opec member nation.
Reading a communique from the coalition, Torrealba said its more than two dozen parties had decided unanimously to activate “all the mechanisms for change” in Venezuela’s constitution in search of a “national unity government”.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/08/venezuela-president-nicolas-maduro-opposition-campaign