内容摘要：Farmers demonstrate against changes to legislation that would ease restrictions on pesticide and water use in farming.

Farmers demonstrate against changes to legislation that would ease restrictions on pesticide and water use in farming.

Turnout in the elections was 8.9 million or roughly 42 percent of 21 million voters eligible to cast their ballots. CNE chief Carlos Quintero noted that was the same figure as in the 2021 elections.However, the country’s main opposition leaders had urged voters to boycott the election in protest over

July’s 2024 presidential election. The opposition insists that it won that race but authorities declared Maduro the winner.Opposition figurehead Maria Corina Machado declared in a post on X late on Sunday that in some areas of the country, up to 85 percent of eligible voters snubbed the election, which she slammed as an “enormous farce that the regime is trying to stage to bury its defeat” in last year’s election.

Maduro, however, shrugged off the boycott.“When the opponent withdraws from the field, we advance and occupy the terrain,” he said matter-of-factly.

According to journalists and social media posts, turnout was noticeably low in Venezuela’s main cities. Still, images posted by the government party showed scores of people lining up to vote in areas like Trujillo and the Amazons.

Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo, reporting from Argentina, noted that during the campaign, the opposition had been divided on the boycott call, making it difficult to present a more forceful challenge against Maduro.are amid one of the worst measles outbreaks in the past 50 years

. So far there have been over 1,000 cases, predominantly of unvaccinated children, two of whom have died.This renewed commitment to limit federal government resources dedicated towards the health and safety of all Americans has eugenics and longtermism written all over it. The work of Musk and Kennedy, in particular, have undermined the role of the federal government in the public eye. Their reluctance to help people in need and their belief that those with physical and intellectual disabilities (particularly those who are elderly or autistic) are a drain on economic resources are all part of a view that many Americans are expendable, even unto death.

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.Government escalates row with university over demands to curb pro-Palestine student activism and change racial diversity policies.