‘Their last hope’: can a political challenger in Venezuela pull the country out of chaos?

Though never reliable in Venezuela, where free speech is scant and censorship rife, polls say Machado is ahead with 41% of the vote.“I think Venezuelans still think she is radical, but they feel so abandoned by the previous opposition leadership, and so hopeless. They need leadership and they need hope – and I think that’s what people see in Maria Corina Machado: their last hope,” said Maria Puerta Riera, a Venezuelan political scientist at Valencia College in Orlando.Machado’s central campaign pledge is toppling Maduro and getting the country’s collapsed economy back on its feet. By Luke Taylor. Full Text -> The Guardian

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