Dictators, Strongmen Head to Venezuela for Anti-Imperialist Summit

There will reportedly be 52 countries, all with non-democratic governments, at the summit. The representative of North Korea is the star, as it is a country that just detonated its fifth atomic bomb and recently opened diplomatic relations with Venezuela. Cuba, the oldest Latin American member of the Non-Aligned Countries, will also be there. It enrolled in 1961 and its tenure in the group spans 55 years. Maduro can take lessons from, for example, Zimbabwe, Somalia and Eritrea, all dictatorships thathave endured for at least two decades. Or Belarus, where Alexander Lukashenko has become a pariah. His nation, which he has governed since 1994, is an island out of which nothing comes in and nothing out. Or the Democratic Republic of Congo, deemed one of the most miserable countries on Earth. More…