🎧 NEW EPISODE | Could a Competitive Vote Offer a Way out of Venezuela’s Crisis?

On Hold Your Fire! Richard Atwood is joined by Phil Gunson to discuss #Venezuela ’s presidential elections and its government’s claim to an oil-rich region in neighbouring Guyana.
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Could a Competitive Vote Offer a Way out of Venezuela’s Crisis? crisisgroup.org/latin-america-… via @crisisgroup

There's no one better than our analyst Phil Gunson to guide a listener through a hurly-burly week of politics in #Venezuela , in which the thought that the opposition could pull off a victory in July seems to have gone beyond a wishful whisper.

After a month-long political rollercoaster, #Venezuela now looks set for something resembling to a competitive presidential election on 28 July. But is it? A short(ish) thread:

🇭🇹🇭🇹Moments after the inauguration of the transitional presidential council in #Haiti , PM Henry resigns from the post.

En un par de semanas estaré conversando con colegas de lujo en este evento organizado por InSight Crime y Programa de Seguridad Ciudadana IBERO. Regístrate y conversemos sobre los desafíos que plantean las drogas sintéticas al modelo de prohibición insightcrime.org/es/event/desaf…

The 9 members of the presidential council who will lead a new transitional government in #Haiti were swiftly sworn in at the National Palace this morning, despite the looming threat of a gang attack.
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Por lo que me han contado en los últimos 2 días desde el terreno, la situación en el #SurDeBolívar es mucho peor que se imagina🚨

Los grupos saben que allá nadie llegue, no hay testigos en los medios, es una región totalmente invisible. La violencia no se ve.

lo que sabemos🧵👇