Venezuela goes to the polls this Sunday in the midst of a great historical urgency, as if the country were at a crossroads. The permanence in power of Chavismo, which has ruled the destiny of the nation for 25 years, is in question for this presidential election, the sixth since Hugo Chavez’s irruption in 1998. In the Miraflores Palace, the tropical neo-baroque style seat of the government, full of paintings and busts of Simón Bolívar and Chávez himself, they do not quite understand how this situation has reached its limit. In its corridors, stupefaction prevails. A leader of the PSUV, the ruling party, says: “A correct risk analysis was not made.” President Nicolás Maduro and his advisors, all of them experienced in high voltage electoral processes, thought a couple of months ago that they had everything under control. It was a mirage.
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