La líder de la oposicion venezolana es "un modelo de esperanza y resiliencia", dicen Susan Segal y Andrés Gluski de AS/COA en La Nación y El Tiempo.

Maduro has incarcerated an unprecedented number of dissidents, casting an even darker shadow over his regime.

Thousands of Venezuelans are expected to emigrate in the wake of July’s election fraud. What legal migration pathways exist in the region? 

Renewed migration from the South American country will supercharge the issue in domestic politics throughout the hemisphere. The region's leaders can still contain the damage.

The consolidation of a totalitarian regime poses a dilemma to the opposition: continue the electoral strategy or find an elusive new approach.

"We got an election but is that the endgame?," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to the Miami Herald.

Maduro will try to turn González's departure into a new victory for his dictatorship, testing the opposition and the international community alike.