VENEZUELA
Mr. Popular
Polls suggest Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro received a boost from an unlikely source this month: US President Donald Trump.
Maduro’s popularity jumped from a dismal 6 percent to 23 percent in September. Some Venezuelans may have closed ranks in response to several rounds of US sanctions, while others may have noted a sharp drop-off in violent anti-government protests, Reuters reported.
Nearly 52 percent of respondents opposed the Trump administration sanctions, which followed Maduro’s move to create a Constituent Assembly to amend the constitution and grant himself more power. The move had earlier caused a substantial increase in the number of protesters demonstrating against the left-wing heir to late President Hugo Chavez, whose economic policies have resulted in devastating shortages of essential goods, including food and medicines.
Fifty-seven percent of the 1,000 people surveyed said they disagreed with the United States using a “military option” to push for change in Venezuela, as Trump has held out as a possibility.
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