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Maduro is safe in office, ... but he and his allies recognize they are moving forward with a big lie and have no other way to justify what they are doing except by relying on the military."
It's evident that a regime like that represents a threat to the hemisphere,
he said while visiting the Dominican Republic, where he met with President Luis Abinader and a delegation of former presidents from across Latin America It's an impressive show of force, but it's also a sign of weakness, ... How Maduro Stole Venezuela's Vote."
said Corrales, who co-authored an article this month in the Journal of Democracy titled, Of course, there's fewer people,
said empanada vendor Miguel Contrera as National Guard soldiers carrying riot shields buzzed by on motorcycles We are not afraid! We are not afraid
shouted demonstrators who sang the Venezuelan national anthem to herald Machado's brave defiance of Maduro They wanted us to fight each other, but Venezuela is united,
Machado, waving a Venezuelan flag, shouted to a few hundred protesters from atop a truck in the capital The people of Venezuela deserve a peaceful transfer of power to the true winner of their presidential election,
Biden said following the meeting We will see each other very soon in Caracas, in freedom,
González Urrutia told his countrymen Thursday in an address from the Dominican Republic, where he wrapped up a diplomatic tour aimed at pressuring Maduro to step aside Get out and leave the country in peace
read one Caracas protestor's placard I will leave my skin on the asphalt for my children, but it will be worth it because Venezuela will be free
It means putting a leader in jail to scare off the entire movement, political or human rights,
The fact the government is sending out other security corps to integrate those already on the street indicates that they are suspicious of within their own ranks too,
Correa is a veteran of human rights activism in Venezuela, he’s a reference for the entire human rights movement. His reported detention and forced disappearance are very serious, because it foresees the repressive response the Government is mounting ahead of Friday’s inauguration,
said Laura Dib, Director of the Venezuelan Program at the Washington Office for Latin America, a think tank It was like my soul came back to my body: every step we walked, I was feeling lighter,
When she finally saw him walking out of jail ... Nathaly remembers It’s not normal to have military counterintelligence, and not just the police, manning the checkpoints on the road to the airport... Driving around and you suddenly are stopped by men in balaclavas with an AK-47 asking to see your ID,
he said, asking to go only by his first name because of security concerns Every mother in Venezuela holds the same fear: don’t take away our children,
He did nothing wrong, he was just walking the streets... When he got out, he had lost 19 kilograms and from that moment I never lost sight of him... I’m just terrified if they did it once, they can do it again
Personally, I haven’t decided if I’ll go out on Thursday or not, we need to see what happens,
I don’t even think there’s a pretence now of negotiation or of consensus building or of reaching out to the opposition … It’s a wholesale rejection of the opposition and a wholesale rejection of democracy,
said Polga-Hecimovich, a political scientist from the US Naval Academy He’s a brutal dictator who imprisons people who think differently and who oppose him. He’s a dictator who oversaw the biggest economic collapse in modern Latin American history and is responsible for the largest exodus of migrants in the hemisphere’s history. And he is someone who has constructed a shameful legacy,
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