What’s next in Venezuela’s crisis: a regionally-brokered solution?

Facing a growing death toll from its brutal repression of protesters, growing international isolation following its suspension of South American trade bloc Mercosur and its departure under pressure from the Organization of American States, increasing cracks within the government and an increasingly desperate economic situation, Maduro may have no choice but to accept a "group of friendly countries" to seek a face-saving way out of its crisis. More…