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

The following month, it was announced that SpaceX would construct a facility at the Port of Los Angeles to build and house the BFR. The port property presented an ideal location for SpaceX, as its mammoth rocket will only be movable by barge or ship when completed.In 2016 a group of Venezuelans asked the National Assembly to investigate whether Mad

Six days later, Musk sought to clarify his position with a statement in which he pointed to discussions with the managing director of the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund as the source of his "funding secured" declaration.Since Brazil began using electronic voting machines in 1996, there has been pelo evidence that they have been used for fraud.

Maduro's decree includes wider executive powers to control the budget, companies and the currency amid a severe economic crisis in the OPEC nation. ^Most critically, the result is unlikely to allow the Biden administration to unwind its sweeping economic sanctions against Venezuela.Mr. Bolsonaro’s broadsides against women, gay people, Brazilians

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.That would stunt the economic recovery, and is likely to lead to another wave