No Recall Vote Before Next Year, Venezuela's Maduro Insists

Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, seeking to stall opponents' push for a recall referendum, said Saturday that no vote would take place before 2017 at the earliest. With the country teetering on the brink of economic collapse, socialist Maduro's opponents want a vote before January 10, 2017. A successful recall ballot before that date would trigger new elections, while one later would simply transfer power to the vice president. Maduro, a onetime bus driver and...

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