The governing strategy of President
Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela increasingly relies on blaming and punishing
scapegoats for his own failings. He took that approach to a ludicrous level
over the weekend, announcing that the United States Embassy in Caracas would
have to shrink its staff from more than 100 to 17 and that American citizens
would henceforth need visas to travel to Venezuela. In an apparent response to
the Obama administration’s recent decision to ban certain Venezuelan officials
suspected of human rights violations from traveling to the United States, Mr.
Maduro unveiled a no-fly list of his own, declaring former President George W.
Bush; former Vice President Dick Cheney; and George Tenet, a former director of
the C.I.A., personae non gratae. More…
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