Venezuelan Opposition Splits as Appeasers Insist on New Round of Dialogues with Dictatorship

 Members of Venezuela’s National Assembly announced this week that they will be splitting from the country’s political opposition, the National Unity Roundtable, or MUD by its Spanish acronym, and forming their own faction called “July 16.” “The National Assembly, as a democratic, plural entity, must undoubtedly be democratic,” Deputy of the Alianza Bravo Pueblo party, Richard Blanco, said during an announcement of the new political faction. More…