 This is The World. I'm Marco Werman. And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thank you for being with us. 2024 is shaping up to be a year of consequential elections all over the globe. In less than two weeks, Venezuela will elect a president. The country's current authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, is doing badly in the polls, which has observers worried about how far he might go to cling to power. For example, new requirements are making it really hard for Venezuelans living abroad to register to vote.