Venezuela is in terrible shape. Two-thirds of voters say in polls they want President Nicolas Maduro gone amid worsening shortages and inflation. It seems like the job of the opposition would be easy.

But critics of the country’s 17-year-old socialist government are reeling after elections officials torpedoed their primary political effort for the year: a campaign to recall Maduro and hold an early presidential election.

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