Maduro’s fake and fleeting victory

Nicolas Maduro won Sunday's presidential election by a mile – and surprised no one.

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Nicolas Maduro: ignoring economics
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The result of Sunday's presidential election in Venezuela was "never in doubt", says Gideon Long in the Financial Times. Nicolas Maduro won "by a mile", thanks to a mixture of coercion including, allegedly, food for votes propaganda and "possibly outright fraud". What is less predictable, is what happens between now and 2025, when his term expires.

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Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.