On the edge of Venezuela¡¯s main oil city Maracaibo, members of a local branch of the ruling socialist party went door-to-door in the weeks after U.S. forces captured President Nicolas Maduro, asking residents if they still supported the party that has run the country for nearly 20 years. The result: about half of members said they no longer did.
¡°The response is very bad,¡± said a person who helped lead the effort. ¡°There is division among us.¡±
While the canvassing results could not be independently verified, the reported drop in support aligned with information gathered from three other parts of the country.
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