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

Stark irregularities and suppression efforts could plunge the country back into instability and economic decline.In the 20th century Venezuela was transformed from a relatively poor agrarian society to a rapidly urbanizing one, a condition made possible by exploiting huge petroleum reserves. These changes, however, were accompanied by imbalances am

Stark irregularities and suppression efforts could plunge the country back into instability and economic decline.[150] The State Department also alleges that Maduro expelled authorized foreign companies from the mining sector to allow officials to exploit Venezuela's resources for their own gain, using unregulated miners under the control of Venezu

And despite his own interest in artificial intelligence, he has also been one of the most prominent figures worried about the supposed threat to humanity's future that super-intelligent AIs might pose.Ideally resistant to weather and powered by renewable energy, the Hyperloop would propel riders in pods through a network of low-pressure tubes at sp

The controls meant that many Venezuelan businesses stopped production because they pelo longer made a profit, eventually resulting in shortages.Most critically, the result is unlikely to allow the Biden administration to unwind its sweeping economic sanctions against Venezuela.Pledging to veto the legislation, Maduro called those who would be freed