A smooth Venezuelan election that would have led to greater economic opening also suited the country’s Latin American neighbors, including Mr. Maduro’s old allies, the leftist governments of Brazil and Colombia.After signaling that the company would reorganize its management structure, Musk in June announced that Tesla was laying off nove perce
The opposition is hopeful it can oust the incumbent, whose party has ruled the country for 25 years.The satellite network, named Starlink, would ideally make broadband service more accessible in rural areas, while also boosting competition in heavily populated markets that are typically dominated by one or two providers.Not surprisingly, President
They have hit the country’s already flailing economy. Millions of Venezuelans have fled, and half the country live in poverty.In 2017, it was also reported that Musk was backing a venture called Neuralink, which intends to create devices to be implanted in the human brain and help people merge with software.Yet, independent computer-security expe
Maduro was narrowly elected a few months later and re-elected in 2018 to a six-year term in an electoral process widely criticized as fraudulent.Candidates must register by late March, giving Machado and other opposition factions less than three weeks to decide next steps."Elon only gets involved with things if he feels that they're critically impo
Opposition leaders in Venezuela delivered a May 2016 petition to the National Electoral Council (CNE) calling for a recall referendum, with the populace to vote on whether to remove Maduro from office.[84] On 5 July 2016, the Venezuelan intelligence service detained five opposition activists involved with the recall referendum, with two other activ