Venezuela Elections Are Sunday - Famous For Lack Of Democracy - Dictator Maduro

(MENAFN- Newsroom Panama) Colombian Senator Angélica Lozano is pictured above being deported from Venezuela.
Throughout the day there have been complaints from various international Political figures who have not been allowed to enter Venezuela, which will hold long-awaited presidential elections this Sunday.
A flight of a group of former Latin American presidents heading to Venezuela this Friday, invited by the opposition to follow the elections, was prevented from taking off from Panama, while a delegation of parliamentarians from the Spanish Popular Party (PP) was also detained in Caracas. Ten candidates will participate in Sunday's elections, including President Nicolás Maduro and former ambassador Edmundo González Urrutia, a candidate from the largest opposition coalition led by María Corina Machado.
González has a huge lead over Maduro according to traditional pollsters..

As we all know, there is no real democracy in Venezuela.
Close to 8 million Venezuelans have fled the country, and of course, into Colombia, through the Darien, and into Panama on their way to the USA.
Leaders from South and Central American countries have not been allowed to meet with opposition parties or view election activities.
Colombian Senator Angélica Lozano denounced this Friday that she was deported from Venezuela, where she arrived to meet with opposition leader María Corina Machado, after her passport was taken away for an hour and a half "without arguments or information." "María Corina Machado cannot make it to our appointment, they are deporting me with total abuse of the regime that is going to fall this Sunday for the good of Venezuela," wrote the senator of the Green Party on her X account.
Lozano denounced before the Colombian Foreign Ministry that "all" her rights were violated "without arguments or information."
"They took our passports for an hour and a half, they didn't tell us anything.

They are returning two Ecuadorian women and two young Colombians," she said in a video recorded while she was being escorted at the Maiquetía International Airport in Caracas. Lozano added: "They are taking us away without any reason (...) solidarity with this suffering country."
According to the Colombian senator, the Venezuelan authorities also did not allow them to use the telephone to speak with the ambassador "and they put us on a plane back to which we did not buy a ticket."
"People are crying for the dream of democracy returning. There is no evil that lasts 100 years and this regime of misery has to leave this Sunday. Let's vote for Venezuela," she said.

Residents and community organizers take the street Wednesday to show support for opposition candidate in Venezuela's presidential election, Edmundo Gónzalez Urrutia, in the neighborhood of La Vega, in Venezuela's capital of Caracas are bracing for one of their most consequential and contentious elections this Sunday, which could bring dramatic change to the South American nation.
Should the main opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, win and take an oath of office in January, it would end 12 years of authoritarian government under President Nicolás Maduro - and a quarter-century of rule by the Socialist Party founded by the late leader Hugo Chávez.
Eight other opposition candidates
are also on the ballot but none polls above 2%. Those same polls show
González with a huge lead over Maduro, who has led Venezuela into its worst economic crisis in history and nearly crushed its democracy, prompting almost 8 million Venezuelans to flee the country.

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