The European Parliament defends by an overwhelming majority that María Corina Machado be a candidate for the presidential elections. The resolution demands that the three opposition leaders detained in recent days be immediately released.
The European Parliament's support for the winner of the opposition primaries comes a few hours after a mob made up of a hundred radical Chavistas attacked a political event by Machado with sticks and stones. The leftist and populist governments of Colombia, Brazil and Mexico maintain their closeness to Caracas and a common strategy to whitewash the Bolivarian revolution.