Venezuelan government still deciding whether to allow the candidacy of María Corina Machado

For a month now, the Venezuelan government and the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) have had the ball in their court. The country’s prolonged political crisis — in which the international community has mediated, pushing for elections with guarantees — is, once again, facing a decisive year. The crisis will continue for as long as President Nicolás Maduro allows it to last.The final steps in the negotiations between the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and the United States — within the framework of the agreements reached between the Maduro government and the Venezuelan opposition in Barbados — led opposition leader María Corina Machado to present an appeal before the judiciary, asking that her political ban be lifted. She argues that it was handed down without legal basis. By Florantonia Singer. Full Text -> ElPaís

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