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Venezuela’s woes continue
Venezuela’s beleaguered left-wing president Nicolas Maduro wants to bring in a new constitution that would sideline the National Assembly now dominated by opposition legislators. Since the start of last month, 30 people have been killed in street demonstrations demanding that Maduro resign and call a new presidential election.He is proposing instead a citizens’ assembly that would produce the new constitution. But the big question of course is who would make up this new body and to what degree it would be representative of all shades of opinion in the country. It certainly seems clear that it would be appointed not elected. And the obvious concern among opposition leaders is that the people Maduro would appoint would be drawn from among his leftist supporters. Even if, under the...
May 03, 2017
Venezuela’s woes continue
UK’s May springs June surprise
The decision by British premier Theresa May to call a snap general election in just seven weeks’ time is all the more of a surprise because, ever since she succeeded David Cameron in Downing Street, May has been insisting that her government would serve out its statutory term which ends in 2020. The pro-EU Cameron resigned when the referendum he had promised on continued EU membership was won by the Leave campaign. Though May had been a “remainer”, she played little role in the referendum hustings and when she took over from Cameron pledged “Brexit means Brexit”. She insisted that she was going to carry out the will of the British electorate and that there would be no half-measures. The UK was going to quit the EU. Last month she triggered the two-year process in which...
April 20, 2017
UK’s May springs June surprise
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