Trump and the Venezuela Model of Compliant Autocracy
Donald Trump
On Jan. 3, the United States military captured and extracted the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in a military raid ordered by President Donald Trump. Operation Absolute Resolve , the raid, reiterated Trump’s determination to ensure American dominance in the Western Hemisphere but it also carried an implicit promise: the democratic rebirth of Venezuela. For 12 years, Maduro presided over the hollowing out of Venezuela as the steward of Chavismo, the hybrid regime forged by Hugo Chavez that
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