{"id":1005,"date":"2017-11-02T15:54:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2017-11-02T15:54:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T15:54:19","slug":"venezuelas-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2017\/11\/02\/venezuelas-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela&#8217;s Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/key-opposition-parties-boycott-venezuela-mayoral-elections\/2017\/10\/30\/bdee8f2e-bdbc-11e7-9294-705f80164f6e_story.html?utm_term=.4fef4bf0cf7f<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-content inline-photo inline-photo-normal horizontal-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hi-res-lazy courtesy-of-the-lazy-loader\" src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_1484w\/2010-2019\/Wires\/Online\/2017-10-30\/AP\/Images\/APTOPIX_Venezuela_Daily_Life_37868.jpg-1e5bd.jpg?uuid=vSl1zL28EeeSlHBfgBZPbg\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"pb-caption\">Jose Bestilleiro, 83, from Spain, performs for tips at an street intersection in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017. Bestilleiro said he\u2019s been performing every day for the past 15 years, and brings in at least 5,000 Bolivars a day, which on the black market is 11 cents and is the price of a cheap \u201carepa\u201d sandwich. (Rodrigo Abd\/Associated Press)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pb-sig-line hasnt-headshot has-0-headshots hasnt-bio is-not-column\"><span class=\"pb-byline\">By\u00a0Associated Press<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"pb-timestamp\">October 30<\/span><\/div>\n<article class=\"paywall\">CARACAS, Venezuela \u2014 Two of Venezuela\u2019s leading opposition parties will boycott upcoming political races to protest recent gubernatorial elections that they say were rigged to favor President Nicolas Maduro\u2019s ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>National Assembly President Julio Borges announced Monday that his Justice First party will run no candidates in mayoral elections across the country in December.<\/p>\n<p>The Popular Will party also announced a boycott.<\/p>\n<p>They are among nearly 30 parties that make up Venezuela\u2019s fractured opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Borges says that instead they will fight for elections free of fraud and deceptive tactics.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Maduro\u2019s socialist party unexpectedly won nearly all the gubernatorial elections earlier this month in voting that the opposition disputed as rigged.<\/p>\n<p>Building on its momentum, the pro-government constitutional assembly next called for the mayoral races to be held by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/key-opposition-parties-boycott-venezuela-mayoral-elections\/2017\/10\/30\/bdee8f2e-bdbc-11e7-9294-705f80164f6e_story.html?utm_term=.4fef4bf0cf7f &nbsp; Jose Bestilleiro, 83, from Spain, performs for tips at an street intersection in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017. Bestilleiro said he\u2019s been performing every day for the past 15 years, and brings in at least 5,000 Bolivars a day, which on the black market is 11 cents and is the price of a cheap \u201carepa\u201d sandwich&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2017\/11\/02\/venezuelas-problem\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}