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How Can Venezuela’s Opposition Regain Momentum?

By Omar Lugo

Political organizations plan to reactivate the Democratic Unitary Platform. However, the most delicate challenge may be Machado's return.

CARACAS—Relevance. In a word, that is the goal of Venezuela’s opposition more than two months after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, a period that has seen acting President Delcy Rodríguez surprisingly consolidate herself as the country’s new leader with the support of Donald Trump. As a result, the opposition is debating tactics and strategies to regain the upper hand – to recover momentum for democratic elections and ensure that the opposition’s leaders are not marginalized or forgotten by either the Venezuelan public or the international community. “The danger,...

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