Trump has been mostly silent on Latin America. That’s probably a good thing.

The way out, as Almagro sees it, is pressure so severe that it forces the regime to allow the “complete reconstruction of the electoral system” before a free and fair presidential election. He concedes the odds of success are not good: “We are defying history,” he says. That’s true in more ways than one: It’s not often that Latin Americans publicly appeal for such forceful U.S. intervention. More…