Venezuela Stops Pretending. The World Should, Too
The international community faces tough decisions once again, after a high-profile arrest and expulsion.
This was the week Nicolás Maduro stopped even pretending. After months of stringing along his own citizens and the international community with hopes of a quasi-democratic thaw, Venezuela’s dictator arrested a well-known human rights activist and then abruptly kicked a United Nations’ human rights agency out of the country, giving its staff 72 hours to leave. The tactics were old. But the feeling was somehow new. Over the last five years, efforts to restore Venezuela’s democracy have come full circle: From the more than 50 nations who recognized Juan Guaidó as the...
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