The Political Divide in Venezuela
Caracas resident Juan Espinoza will be casting his ballot for Venezuela’s Interim President Nicolas Maduro. He says his candidate will keep alive Hugo Chavez’s dream of broadening the country’s middle class and tackling poverty.
Los Amigos Invisibles on the other hand are not exactly too impressed with the Chavinistas in their home country. The funk band came through Boston the other day, and they tell Marco Werman that voting in Sunday’s election by absentee ballot is not as easy as it should be.
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