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Now Is Latin America's Chance to Rally Against Maduro

By Nicolás Alonso, Rodrigo Riaza

Ministers should use OAS meeting to resume pressure for regime change in Venezuela.

Latin America should face an inconvenient truth – it has no workable strategy to confront the Venezuelan crisis. When the region’s foreign ministers meet at the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington on May 31, they will have an opportunity to develop such a joint approach. They should do so. The clock is ticking and the cost of inaction rises every day.

A month has passed since President Nicolás Maduro’s decision to withdraw from the OAS. In one stroke, he undermined regional leverage over his country, deprived the Venezuelan opposition of a powerful partner, and...

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