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Read More »Venezuela’s empty polls lead to hollow democracy
“A triumph of peace and democracy.†That’s how Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro described his government’s implausible victory in last weekend’s gubernatorial elections. In fact, it is a further hardening of the soft autocracy that used to be South America’s richest democracy. Maduro’s government entered the polls with an approval rate of about 24 percent in a collapsed economy with inflation ...
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