This is a CVS Island World. I'm John Bachelor. Venezuela. Two important dates in the month of July for Venezuela, primarily the vote, the election

scheduled for July 28th. What is to be done given the dictator Maduro has

in no intention of giving up his authority and his domination of the people of Venezuela,

many of whom have fled.

The other date requires Mary Anastasio Grady is here the America's editor to help me finally understand

what Sitco has to do with Madura I never did so these two dates are coming up

Mary a very good evening to you I want to begin with the vote because I understand that part

uh... miss Machado who was chosen by the opposition to face Maduro in the presidential election

was disenfranchised by the bullying of the regime. The party she represented however

chose a surrogate, Mr. Gonzalez, whose mild mannered and straightforward and

leading by vast amounts in the polling.

However, you evidence in your column

that the Maduro regime does not intend to lose.

How are they going to hold on to it?

What's your thinking, Mary?

Good evening to you.

Well, good evening, John. They're pulling out a lot of their

usual tricks. First thing is that they control the polling stations and I have

reports from Venezuela that there are new polling stations popping up in remote areas,

inside military bases, in government offices.

And this would allow them to, you you know suddenly announce that a whole landslide

of votes came in from Maduro so that's one place you know their control of the

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