PLEASE HEED THE CALL: Ahead of Massive Protest March, Venezuela Opposition Demands Change.
Americo de Grazia, an opposition congressman in the National Assembly for Bolívar state, told NBC News Venezuelans from all parts of the country are traveling to join the march and show the government their “discontent in a peaceful, constitutional and democratic way.”
Venezuelans have vowed to take to the streets to pressure the electoral body, known as the CNE, to move along the recall referendum to oust President Nicolás Maduro. The referendum started earlier this year with the collection of the signatures of 1 percent of the electorate. It’s a process that the coalition of opposition parties, the MUD, says has been marred by a series of setbacks imposed by the president of the CNE, Tibisay Lucena.
This new protest grows out of a frustration at the ravages of the deteriorating economic and political situation.
I probably don’t have to tell you that this NBC News report omitted the word “socialism.”