Roughly a quarter of Venezuela’s population has already left, with almost eight million people living in other countries, according to the United Nations, forming one of the largest migration crises in the world.

So far, Mr. Maduro has shown little interest in relinquishing power, no matter what the vote shows. This week at a campaign event, he warned that Venezuela would fall “into a blood bath, into a fratricidal civil war” if he didn’t win.

The election is today. I hope Maduro loses and relinquishes power. I have met several people from the Venezuelan diaspora. A waiter's story at a restaurant in Panama City just before the pandemic stands out to me. He just wanted to go back, but there were no jobs in Venezuela. He was sending money back home. It wasn't a political opinion. He just wanted a job. He blamed Maduro and socialism, and I think he was correct.