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Venezuela's opposition is on the verge of collapse

  • Written by Marco Aponte-Moreno, Assistant Professor of Global Business, St Mary's College of California

It’s been a bittersweet couple of weeks for the Venezuelan opposition, which for six months this year staged daily protests against the authoritarian-leaning regime of president Nicolás Maduro.

On Oct. 26, the alliance – which began working together in 2008 to counterbalance Hugo Chávez’s “Chavista”...

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