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New Article on the Venezuela Plebiscite


On Sunday July 16 more than two thousand Venezuelan residents in the Calgary area cast ballots in the plebiscite mandated by the Venezuelan National Assembly and in defiance of the United Socialist Party government of President Nicolas Maduro. Those casting ballots in Calgary were part of the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan expats in some seventy-five countries around the world who did so, along with the seven million who voted in Venezuela itself. LARC Former Director Dr. Stephen J. Randall was an official observer for the Calgary plebiscite voting and has published an update on the crisis. FULL ARTICLE is available.