Venezuela is on fire. For a month now its
streets have been engulfed by mass protests against a power grab by its
president Nicolas Maduro. This month alone 61 people have died. This week, the
opposition leader was tear-gassed and a judge was shot. The Venezuelan
government seems as impervious to this chaos as to pressures from the
international community. Maduro answered calls by the Organisation of American
States last month for a recall referendum on his presidency by pulling out of
the international group which has served as Latin America's regional arbiter
for over a century. More…
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