rigged some of their most popular candidates had been banned from running. we don't recognize this electoral process as valid as having taken place. for us there were no elections no new elections in venezuela need to take place. oil rich venezuela has been in economic meltdown for most of the doors time in power catastrophic shortages in food medicine and other essentials led to months of street protests last year which resulted in more than one hundred twenty five dead inflation is at fourteen thousand percent. all the while madore has tightened his grip on power but doris says he's defending venezuela from imperialism the election has been broadly condemned by the international community the u.s. is considering additional sanctions against the state which would likely further damage venezuela's economy.