This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor.

This is CBS I I in the World, The New World Report.

I'm John Bachelor and I welcome Professor Evan Ellis,

the Latin American Research Professor, U.S. Army War College, at the Strategic Studies Institute.

Venezuela, the dictator Nicholas Maduro, is running for a new term.

The vote is in July, we're told.

However, there is an opposition that has been identified around a very dynamic speaker, Maria

Karina Machado.

Maria Karia Machado. Maria Karia Karate.

Karina Machado.

And what is significant about the outspokenness

of the candidate who wants to face Maduro in an election in July,

she's been banned from the ballot.

This has caused disruption in all circles,

especially a dialogue between Washington and Caracas, seeking to lift sanctions in order to encourage Venezuela to come back from the outside world where it's lived these many years the 7 million or more

Venezuelans driven out a hundred thousand of whom are in New York is a

hemispheric wide tragedy.

At the same time, the opposition was recommending

a nomination of another player to take Maria Karina Machado's place in order to demonstrate the strength of

the opposition. Professor a very good evening to. I believe it is clever to nominate an 80-year-old patriot,

Maria Karina, and then she has a third name that is not Machado. The attempt being here to make it easy for people

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