Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

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This is John Batchelor.

Conversation with my good colleague Joseph Umar, Executive Director

Skirfri Society, about the prospect of an election in Venezuela in July of this year.

The Maduro regime has no intention of holding a free and fair

election. It is disenfranchised the chief opposition figure Maria Karina Machado

ruled her not eligible to be on the ballot.

Her party has brought forth someone to stand in for her, but in any event, we continue to hear stories about members of the

opposition being arrested, jailed. One was reported murdered in Santiago by

gangsters who attempted to hide his body in a suitcase in concrete, a

former officer in the Venezuela military, now more arrests of the opposition figures. Joseph assesses it here and

answers his question, will they let the election go forward? What is this? What

meaning does this have Joseph Umar executive

director of the puzzling question of an election in Venezuela

within months.

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