The high court’s transformation into an
arm of the Maduro government comes at a terrible time for the oil-rich country,
which is already mired in a deep economic crisis marked by widespread food
shortages and inflation projected to rise by more than 700 percent this year. Maduro
has reacted by attacking opponents at home and abroad. He’s derided the
anti-government protesters “as vandals and terrorists” and ramped up his
rhetoric against the US, which he regularly says is a decaying empire and a
sponsor of terrorism. On Thursday, the Maduro government seized the assembly
plant of General Motors in Venezuela, leading the American giant to pull out of
the country.More…
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