Maduro Is Testing the Limits of Biden’s Fair-Election Deal
- US had dropped sanctions in exchange for democratic elections
- Opposition says Maduro has violated the agreement eight times
Nicolas Maduro speaks at the Supreme Court in Caracas on Jan. 31.
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Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has so brazenly disrespected his promise for free and fair elections that allies in Colombia and Brazil took to publicly condemning his crackdown on the opposition.
Barring the opposition’s primary winner, Maria Corina Machado, and her little-known substitute, Corina Yoris, from running in this year’s presidential race are among the latest violations of the deal that Maduro struck five months ago with President Joe Biden’s administration to allow democratic elections in exchange for the removal of some of the crippling sanctions imposed years ago on the crisis-torn country.