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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent and Camille Rodríguez Montilla in Guatire

Could Venezuela’s softly-spoken opposition newcomer end 25 years of Chavismo?

People line up at polling place in Caracas
A polling center in Caracas. Maduro is looking to win his third six-year term. Photograph: Ronald Pena R/EPA

The road from Caracas to Guatire is lined with propaganda billboards glorifying President Nicolás Maduro and likening his political rivals to gangsters from the country’s most infamous criminal group. “They won’t defeat us,” the slogan declares.

But with less than a month until the economically fractured South American country holds its long-awaited presidential election on 28 July, some people are not persuaded.

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