Venezuela's Maduro Wins Six More Years

Venezuela's Maduro Wins Six More YearsTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 817, Segment 1

May 22, 2018 • 18m

Guest: Kirk Hawkins, PhD, Professor of Political Science, BYU Venezuela’s leftist president Nicolas Maduro easily won another six-year term over the weekend. But the US and other independent observers say the election was a fraud, and yesterday the US imposed new economic sanctions on Venezuela. Also on Monday, 14 nations from the Americas, including Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, vowed to scale back diplomatic relations with Venezuela. Will these efforts to freeze Venezuela’s dictator out of the international community do anything to help the country’s people, who are suffering widespread hunger and lack of basic medical care?

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Guest: Greg Smith, Associate Director of Research, Pew Research Center The fastest growing religious group in America is the “nones” – people who believe “nothing in particular.” But most of those folks still believe in God. In fact, nine out of ten Americans believe in some sort of higher power. There’s a lot of difference in the details, though, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. Even among Christians there is a lot of variety in just what they mean when they say they believe in God.

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