She plans to vote for Trump because of his pro-business policies and attention to Venezuela’s crisis. In 1998, Chavez, a charismatic former army colonel, was elected on an outsider platform promising to redistribute Venezuela’s oil riches. AD“We’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump said, repeating an unsubstantiated claim that mail-in ballots are fraudulent. Spanish-language campaign ads claim Trump is a despot in the same mold as Chavez and Maduro; Biden is cast as an extremist who will turn the country into a socialist dystopia. “Many are scared.”Democrats have been working to increase their presence in Venezuelan enclaves and other of Florida’s manifold Latino communities.

Source: Washington Post September 27, 2020 02:48 UTC