Many of us have praised Pope Francis for
his humbleness and for his tolerance toward victims of discrimination who had
long been neglected by the Vatican, but it’s time to tell him loud and clear:
Get out of Venezuela. The Vatican’s mediation effort in Venezuela has been — to
use a word much in vogue in Washington these days — a disaster. It has
legitimized that country’s authoritarian ruler Nicolás Maduro, throwing him a
lifeline when millions of protesters were demanding his resignation on the
streets in October 2016. And it has helped him get back on his feet by further
cracking down on the opposition. More…
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