“Venezuela’s main opposition coalition said on Sunday it is unified behind María Corina Machado as a candidate for the next presidential election and outlined conditions for a political transition in the country,” Bloomberg reports.
“The bloc, made up of all opposition parties and known as the Democratic Unitary Platform, presented a road map that includes the need for a negotiated process to enable free and competitive elections for a transfer of power.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.