Venezuela’s crisis is a genuine
nightmare, but it now also has elements of farce. The nation’s most famed
political prisoner has been released to house arrest, and the attorney general
who put him behind bars has changed sides and denounced the “state terrorism”
of strongman Nicolás Maduro. In turn, Maduro’s supreme court is on the verge of
ousting the attorney general on flimsy charges and has illegally named a Maduro
loyalist to be her deputy. The deputy has been denied access to the Ministry of
Justice, so last week she entered the building in the trunk of a car to gather
evidence against her new boss before she was discovered and thrown out of the
building. Politics in Venezuela is a cross between a Latin version of House of
Cards and an Inspector Clouseau movie. More…
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