During his weekly TV program, "Sundays With Maduro," the 54-year-old socialist leader said gubernatorial elections would happen later this year although the opposition's real agenda was to topple him with a US-backed coup. ... Venezuela's problem is not that there won't be elections this year. Venezuela's problem is that an empire in extremists' hands wants to take our oil and carry out a coup." The next presidential election is due for late 2018, but the opposition wants that brought forward to this year and bundled with legislative, state and mayoral elections. Venezuela's foreign and information ministers met with foreign correspondents on Saturday to protest coverage of the death of a student last week during street clashes.

Source: bd News24 April 30, 2017 19:52 UTC