Venezuela’s Slide into Dictatorship
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Venezuela will hold municipal elections this weekend, but recent harassment and detention of opposition mayors suggest the vote will do little to quell international concern about the situation in the country. Tamara Taraciuk Broner warns that, without increased pressure from foreign governments, the damage done to Venezuela’s democratic institutions may become irreparable.
By Tamara Taraciuk Broner
The Venezuelan government is tightening its stranglehold on the country’s basic institutions of democracy at a terrifying speed.