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5 reasons why Venezuela's nightmare could get worse

  • Written by Andrea Oelsner, Associate professor, Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina)

“It’s time for a coup in Venezuela.”

That statement appeared in Foreign Policy magazine on June 5, two weeks after Nicolás Maduro was re-elected as Venezuela’s president on May 20 in an election widely considered to be rigged.

José R. Cárdenas, the former Bush administration official who wrote it, argued...

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