Venezuela’s New Leaders Share a Goal: Stifle the Opposition
" Diosdado Cabello, a former military chief who is one of the group’s most powerful members, said Wednesday night on state television.
that There is no possibility that the opposition will govern this country,
Mr. Maduro said that You will be a prisoner, Mrs. Luisa Ortega,
Other analysts said they expected that many in the body would simply take directions from more powerful members.
Flores said that With all of the love we feel, all of the emotions we have for the great participation in this great election,
The new body represents a wide panorama of the country’s governing party, a vast political tent raised in
the 1990s by former President Hugo Chávez to advance a socialist-inspired transformation of the country.
David Smilde, an analyst at the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights advocacy group, said
that if Mr. Cabello was chosen to lead the assembly, it could both weaken the president and usher in new levels of militarism into Venezuelan’s government.
