Outsiders must push Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro, to hold a recall referendum

The government knows it would almost certainly lose a referendum. Datanalisis, a pollster, finds that 64% want Mr Maduro to go. Electoral defeat would destroy the founding myth ofchavismo: that it embodies a popular revolution. Mr Maduro would prefer to be pushed out by a military coup, which would make him a victim, argues Henrique Capriles, the opposition presidential candidate in 2013. Many analysts believe that the regime’s strategy is to hang on until 2017, in the hope that the oil price will continue its recent partial recovery and/or with a view to replacing Mr Maduro but keeping power .... http://www.economist.com