{"id":54743,"date":"2024-07-28T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T05:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54743"},"modified":"2024-07-28T15:17:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T05:17:27","slug":"tense-venezuela-votes-in-shadow-of-bloodbath-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54743","title":{"rendered":"Tense Venezuela votes in shadow of &#8216;bloodbath&#8217; warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Venezuelans vote Sunday between continuity in President Nicolas Maduro or change in rival Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia amid high tension following the incumbent&#8217;s threat of a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; if he loses, which polls suggest is likely.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Concerns were further stoked when Caracas blocked several international observers at the last minute, including four ex-presidents who had their plane held up in Panama Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro, 61, is accused of locking up critics and harassing the opposition in a climate of rising authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p>He is seeking a third six-year term at the helm of the once wealthy petro-state that saw GDP drop 80 percent in a decade, pushing more than seven million of its 30 million citizens to emigrate.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro lags far behind challenger Gonzalez Urrutia in voter intention, according to independent polls, but counts on a loyal electoral machinery, military leadership and state institutions in a system of well-established political patronage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelans vote Sunday between continuity in President Nicolas Maduro or change in rival Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia amid high tension following the incumbent&#8217;s threat of a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; if he loses, which polls suggest is likely. Concerns were further stoked when Caracas blocked several international observers at the last minute, including four ex-presidents who had their plane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2035],"class_list":["post-54743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-tense-venezuela-votes-in-shadow-of-bloodbath-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}