Venezuela’s Maduro Veers Back Toward Dictatorship

By DC - May 19, 2017 Leave a Comment

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Time is running out for Venezuela, a nation of 31 million with the world’s largest proved reserves of crude oil

Time is running out for Venezuela, a nation of 31 million with perhaps the world’s largest proved reserves of crude oil. The consequences of its descent for its neighbors and for the United States, whether into dictatorship, civil war, or bloody chaos, demand an immediate response – well beyond the call for dialogue, partial targeted sanctions,…

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