Venezuela Political Chaos Deepens With Third Claim to Presidency

  • Former presidential candidate hired Canadian lobbyist
  • His party is proposing an oil-for-food program with U.S.
Henri FalconPhotographer: Manaure Quintero/Bloomberg
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If Venezuelan politics weren’t convoluted enough, they just got a bit more complicated this week.

The opposition-aligned Progressive Advance party hired Ari Ben-Menashe, a Montreal-based lobbyist, to “pursue Henri Falcon’s election as President of Venezuela,” according to a contract filed with the U.S. Justice Department.