As the Venezuelan election in July 2024 approached, momentum was on the side of the opposition’s bid to oust President Nicolás Maduro at the ballot box. Explore what happened next in this video drawn from an updated version of the 2024 documentary "A Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela."

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Watch an updated version of "A Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela" starting Feb. 4, 2025.

Learn more: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/a-dangerous-assignment-uncovering-corruption-maduro-venezuela/

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"A Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela” is an Assignment Film production for GBH/FRONTLINE in association with Armando.info. The director is Juan Ravell. The producer is Jeff Arak. The reporter is Roberto Deniz. The executive producer for Armando.info is Ewald Scharfenberg. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

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