Venezuela: Top Court Upholds Election Ban on Leading Opposition Candidate

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuelas-highest-court-upholds-ban-on-opposition-presidential-candidate" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">¹FOX News</a>, <a href="https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/Venezuelan-opposition-leader-Machado-will-not-be-able-to-run-in-the-elections/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">²Agenzia Nova</a>, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/27/venezuela-court-disqualifies-leading-opposition-presidential-candidate" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">³Al Jazeera</a>, <a href="https://www.state.gov/venezuelan-supreme-court-rulings-and-the-barbados-agreement/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">⁴United States Department of State</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/28/venezuela-opposition-candidate-ban-machado-maduro/34d6a896-be2a-11ee-a4c6-8f5c350e9316_story.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">⁵Washington Post</a> and <a href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-TSJ-Announces-Decision-on-Disqualifications-20240126-0014.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">⁶Telesur English</a>. Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice has dismissed opposition leader María Corina Machado’s appeal challenging her 15-year election ban first announced by the government of Nicolás Maduro in June 2023. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuelas-highest-court-upholds-ban-on-opposition-presidential-candidate" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">¹</a> Furthermore, the court also upheld findings that Machado had supported the country’s ‘criminal embargo,’ seized funds from foreign banks, and ‘stripped the businesses and wealth of the Venezuelan people.’ <a href="https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/Venezuelan-opposition-leader-Machado-will-not-be-able-to-run-in-the-elections/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">²</a> <a href="https://medium.com/improve-the-news/facts-about-venezuela-top-court-upholds-election-ban-on-leading-opposition-candidate-5358fc624875">Website</a>