A Roadmap for Venezuela’s Future Transition
The U.S. should prepare humanitarian assistance and take other steps to help support a free Venezuela, two experts write.
Recent events in Venezuela, including the unprecedented U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean, strikes against alleged narco-vessels, and last week’s seizure of a sanctioned oil tanker by the U.S., are raising hopes that a transition in government may be in the cards. While some observers have cited Iraq and Libya as cautionary tales, those cases have little in common with Venezuela, a country with a recognized president-elect, a long pre-Hugo Chávez history of democratic government, and none of the major ethnic cleavages evident in other cases. Moreover, the status quo of the...
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