Reuters: Venezuelans buy bus tickets out after Maduro wins re-election
CARACAS, May 22 (Reuters) - Betsabeth Casique saved for eight months for bus tickets out of Venezuela for herself and her three children. At 1.4 million bolivars each, they are worth what she earns in a month working as a nurse.
It is less than two dollars at the black market exchange rate.
When socialist President Nicolas Maduro won re-election to a six-year term on Sunday in a vote the opposition and foreign governments called illegitimate, Casique decided to leave, first for the western city of San Cristobal and from there to Cucuta, Colombia.
"That was the straw that broke the camel's back, what pushed me to do it faster," Casique, 29, said while charging her cell phone outside the Aeroexpresos Ejecutivos terminal in Caracas, where she was planning to buy tickets for a bus leaving on Tuesday.
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WNU Editor: The announcement that President Nicolas Maduro won re-election with a 68% margin .... is the straw that broke the camel's back. This blog has a reader in Caracus who is always updating me on what is happening there, and he was the first to tell me that the only ones who were at the polls on Sunday were a few soldiers and government officials. When I asked him yesterday on what was the reaction on the street when the announcement was made that Maduro had won re-election .... his answer was that in the past there was always celebrations, cars honking, cheers on the streets. This time .... complete silence.
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The real result of this election is the 46% only of voters, even if pumped. Even if opposition has boycott election (to hide their loss of reliability), this sign the distance from politics to peoples. Last chance for Maduro and for a credible opposition.
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