内容摘要：A growing industry is racing to engineer a solution to global warming using the absorbent power of the oceans. (AP Production/ Serginho Roosblad)

A growing industry is racing to engineer a solution to global warming using the absorbent power of the oceans. (AP Production/ Serginho Roosblad)

“Today, we witnessed an event that attempted to disguise itself as an election, but failed to deceive the country or the world,” Edmundo González, who is recognized by the United States and several other countries as the winner of the July presidential election, posted on X.“What the world saw today was an act of civic courage. A silent but powerful declaration that the desire for change, dignity, and a future remains intact,” he added.

Opposition leaders chose González, a retired diplomat, as the faction’s presidential candidate because the government banned primary winner Maria Corina Machado from running for office. González has been in exile since September to avoid arrest and, for the same reason, Machado has not been seen in public since January.Machado’s close ally, Juan Pablo Guanipa, was among 70 people detained Friday for alleged anti-government activities. Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello linked Guanipa to an alleged “terrorist group” plotting to disturb Sunday’s vote.Guanipa’s brother, Tomás, rejected the accusation and said the arrest was punishment for “thinking differently” from the government.

The ruling party-loyal National Electoral Council oversaw Sunday’s election for state legislators, 285 members of the unicameral National Assembly and all 24 governors, including the newly created governorship, a region long under dispute between Venezuela and neighboring Guyana.

Among the members of the opposition who were on Sunday’s ballot were twice-failed presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, who won a seat in the National Assembly, and former lawmaker Juan Requesens, who lost his bid for governor. Requesens spent years in prison after authorities accused him of participating in a failed drone attack against Maduro.

The electoral body reported that the ruling party won 23 of the 24 gubernatorial races. Maduro’s party also kept control of the National Assembly.A police investigator checks on the unidentified body of an alleged drug lord in Manila, Philippines, Sept. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

By then, Marcelo’s mother, Betty Soriano, had decided to start accompanying her son on his nightly tricycle shifts. The family believed he would be safer, and her presence would discourage him from spending time with the drug users he always ran across.Marcelo then made his wife an extraordinary promise: He was quitting shabu. It had become too dangerous.

Betchie felt he had to do more, and convinced him to work day shifts. But the competition was too tough, the money too little, and Marcelo reverted to working nights. He told Betchie she didn’t have to worry “because I’m not using drugs anymore.”At one point, a government official approached Marcelo at his tricycle stand, and told him he needed to turn himself in, a process called “surrendering” that has drawn about 700,000 drug users so far. Most have been released after acknowledging their crimes, giving up the names of others involved in the narcotics trade, and pledging never to use again.