In a significant development in Venezuelan politics, opposition leader María Corina Machado, barred from running in the upcoming July 28 presidential election by the regime, has announced her replacement candidate. Corina Yoris, an 80-year-old widow, grandmother, academic, and Real Madrid fanatic, has been chosen to challenge President Nicolás Maduro. Despite the opposition's efforts to unify and present a strong front against Maduro's autocracy, the Venezuelan National Electoral Council is reportedly preventing Yoris from registering for the election. This move comes amid a broader crackdown on opposition figures, including the arrest of two members of Machado's team and efforts to disqualify other potential candidates. The opposition remains committed to electoral participation, emphasizing unity in the face of these challenges. The situation highlights the stark contrast between Maduro's campaign, buoyed by significant support, and the opposition's struggle to even register their candidate.
It's a tale of two dramatically different political campaigns. Throngs of supporters of President Nicolás Maduro rallied at a giant stage draped in the red, yellow and blue colors of Venezuela's flag outside the electoral council headquarters. https://t.co/tGqd61CRcw
#Venezuela's Two Corinas: Regime now tries to block the substitute candidate, 80 year old Corina Yoris, too. "#Maduro’s strongest challenger, barred from running, picks a stand-in" https://t.co/YgA1UpN1oU
HEAD OF VENEZUELA OPPOSITION COALITION, OMAR BARBOZA, SAYS IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE TO REGISTER A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
ICE says Tren de Aragua member arrested: 'This Venezuelan noncitizen represented a significant threat' https://t.co/r3Fyd8lgop https://t.co/eVnX3JxzkP
#ENVIDEO | President Maduro celebrates with the people his registration for July 28th elections https://t.co/TQgtqoNSQ4
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President Nicolás Maduro makes official reelection run while would-be rival struggles to register candidacy https://t.co/v3VCNuABvL https://t.co/F44hfXg2l5
Venezuela opposition presidential candidate Yoris, 80, says her age is no handicap https://t.co/DI3AqFWor7
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro officially registered his candidacy in July elections, while the opposition remained blocked from signing up its aspirant with just hours until the clock runs out. https://t.co/N3i0JRnp6C https://t.co/OfG4h7qc7F
ÚLTIMA HORA | Maduro confirma detención de "dos hombres con armas" en la movilización oficialista: "están convictos y confesos, pertenecen a Vente Venezuela" https://t.co/iYzPCzwCgD https://t.co/Y19mZRxxAB
Maduro makes official re-election run while would-be rival struggles to register candidacy https://t.co/HxXGIdMB39
#Venezuela | President Nicolas Maduro (@NicolasMaduro) went this Monday to the National Electoral Council to register his presidential candidacy, accompanied by a crowd of people who walked the streets of #Caracas city https://t.co/w9J0u1N3AY
#FromtheSouth News Bits | Hundreds of Venezuelans took to the streets to support President Nicolas Maduro's candidacy for the July 28 presidential elections. https://t.co/5QXtKoqLbL
Venezuela: President Maduro's party files candidacy for a third term. #breaking #CGTNAmerica
"It’s a tale of two dramatically different political campaigns"... Maduro makes official re-election run while would-be rival struggles to register candidacy (from @AP) By @APjoshgoodman & @jorgeruedaap https://t.co/UyCg3JmXMp
A tale of two starkly different campaigns in Venezuela. Maduro makes official his re-election bid amid throngs of government supporters. Meanwhile, his would-be rival -- an unknown 80-year old academic -- struggles just to register her own candidacy. https://t.co/Ue1vh6brwT
The Venezuelan National Electoral council is preventing the oppositions unity substitute candidate Corina Yoris to register in the presidential election, despite her not having any political ban. The deadline for the candidate submissions is today… #Venezuela https://t.co/cZsNZ0iJsL
Though the Tren de Aragua’s notorious headquarters, the Tocorón prison in Aragua state, Venezuela, has been seized by authorities, the gang has continued to expand and has now set off alarm bells in the United States. Learn about the group: https://t.co/I4y6rFYe3z https://t.co/CT5WbZ9P8d
Venezuela’s leading opposition candidate suggested that the government is blocking two major parties from registering a legitimate challenger to President Nicolás Maduro https://t.co/Z8UkP31s84
A ClearPath Strategies poll shows just how much Venezuelans want Maduro out. A candidate backed by Maria Corina Machado would win 49% to 27%. And one who doesn’t have her support would squeak out victory over Maduro, 35% to 27%, the poll shows. https://t.co/zMO9WQ8Qy1
#FromTheSouth News Bits | Venezuela: Fourth day of the presidential candidate registration process. https://t.co/dxIn9kRCSa
In Venezuela, MCM's proxy candidate is Corina Yoris, an academic and an 80-year-old grandmother. Quite the contrast to the mustachioed Maduro who jokes about his resemblance to Stalin. But the regime might not let Yoris on the ballot either. My NPR story https://t.co/LbJqG7o4cL
Citizen participation in the #Venezuela opposition’s primary surpassed all expectations and gave Machado over 90% support among a population desperate for change. But now that she's been disqualified, what's next? @dsmilde: https://t.co/7tQ13WoOOT
Meet @yorisvillasana, the 80-year-old historian, philosopher, grandmother, diehard Real Madrid fanatic who was plucked out of her quiet academia life to challenge #Venezuela strongman @NicolasMaduro. “It’s totally surreal” she tells @wsj in interview. https://t.co/iHYZfUVk2D
Venezuela’s opposition is challenging Maduro in the upcoming July 28 election. The only question is how—and whether they can do so united or divided. Read my latest for the @AtlanticCouncil ⬇️ https://t.co/j8Q85lvo4F
Meet the 80-Year-Old Grandmother Who’s Taking On Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. @WSJ https://t.co/PynoupwKWy
“She’s a philosopher, she’s a historian,” Phil Gunson, of the International Crisis Group, said of Maduro's new challenger, Corina Yoris. “She’s a student of advanced logic. She has an incredible brain. And she’s rather engaging and amusing and likable." https://t.co/UgLMga0qpi
Corina Yoris's life has been one of scholarly tomes on philosophy and classes on Venezuelan history. Now the 80-year-old grandmother has been chosen to challenge the contry's strongman — if she's not banned from office first. https://t.co/ntrzbWoOWV via @WSJ
“It’s totally surreal because I’ve dedicated my life to academia," the 80-year-old grandmother who is taking on Venezuela's strongman, told @WSJ. “Aspirations of becoming president of the republic have never passed through my head. Never." ”https://t.co/rP0evpyRcw
Corina Yoris, a widow and grandmother to seven children, has been plucked out of her quiet life in academia to challenge Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro https://t.co/Ju2xTZYQMO https://t.co/Ju2xTZYQMO
🇻🇪 🇨🇴 | The arrest of a member of the Tren de Aragua on Colombian soil exposes the group’s unexplored links to large-scale drug trafficking. Read our analysis: https://t.co/jiTtm45fGJ
🇻🇪 | The Venezuelan regime arrested two members of the team of María Corina Machado, Maduro's main rival in the presidential elections. Read our content on this recent wave of repression: https://t.co/vnONF5R5NB
Among the myriad of detrimental impacts that come with President Joe Biden’s reprehensible open border policies is the infiltration of Venezuela’s largest criminal gang, which has battered American cities with its trademark of gruesome crimes. READ: https://t.co/lSQNcUInOu
Venezuela’s Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, has said that the power of the Tren de Aragua, led by “Niño Guerrero,” has been overblown, despite multiple captures of the high-ranking members in Spain and elsewhere. Read more about “Niño Guerrero”: https://t.co/hVS612hHRh https://t.co/SbhrybgC42
Amid rumors that even @MariaCorinaYA’s replacement will be banned from running in elections, #Venezuela’s opposition is committed to electoral participation and emphasizing the importance of unity. Read my latest for @AtlanticCouncil’s New Atlanticist. https://t.co/j8Q85lvo4F
Venezuela's Maduro hoped to fracture his opposition by disqualifying its leading candidate against him. Prioritizing an effort to resurrect democracy from Maduro's autocracy, the opposition surprised him by unifying around another candidate. https://t.co/MDz1VKDHn9
Venezuelan Opposition Leader Steps Aside Before Election Amid Crackdown Barred by regime from holding office, María Corina Machado says an 80-year-old academic will run in her place https://t.co/P17Z0hFJTi
Machado may have to step down and put her weight behind a substitute opposition candidate in order to put up the best fight against Maduro this time: https://t.co/7tQ13WoOOT