There are legislative elections due this year, but there are not guarantees that the elections will be fair.
I have said this many times. Venezuela is not a regular country/democracy where people can solve the problem by themselves, where you have check and balance among the different branches of government. Maduro and his gangsters control EVRYTHING, especially the military bodies. For years people have participated in all kinds of elections and protests. For years inocent people, especially young, have been killed in the streets, others are rotting in inhumane prisons and nothing happens: neither the whole population reacts in mass, or the military reacts and does the right thing, let alone the international community. Nothing changes. That's why more than 5 million venezuelans have left the country since 2003 (after it ws obvious that the government would turn totalitrian; 20,000 specialized workers were fired from the main oil company, PDVSA. They were substituted by more than 100,000 underqualified "workers" whose only duty was to make sure the company will be ideologially brainwashed. You check what's the state of that oil company now, in ruins).
We get this a lot and every time, after so much has happened, it is harder to respond to it
You've got to fix it yourselves, that's the only way for the fix to hold.
It sound easy and logical,but it cannot be done. People do not have weapons; the electoral body is controled by the government, the military is a the complete service of the government, all of the high rank miliraty are capos. We are not a regular democracy that can find its way back to normalcy in normaldemocratic processes.
The US is not a democracy either, especially not now with all the businesses owned by lower and middle classes unable to operate, schools closed, families unable to visit each other, churches unable to hold services, etc. Totalitarianism is everywhere. But half of us do have guns at at least, and I hear there are far more guns in the US than there are people. At times like these, I am a supporter of the second amendment big time. What happened to citizen guns in Venezuela?
So Venezuela has been difficult to live in since 2003? What happened then?