When we think of Venezuela, we think of starving people
fleeing their country without access to food, clothing, toilet paper, or
medical care. We think of street urchins
fighting over garbage scraps with machetes.
We think of migrant exoduses from socialism. But there's another reality
about the place, and it's not getting the attention, say, Saudi Arabia or
Russia is, over the killings of dissidents.
The Maduro regime is showing an alarming willingness to violently attack
opposition leaders, and it's moving in on high-profile ones who had previously
seemed untouchable. They've already
jailed politician Leopoldo Lopez and driven many others into exile. But the regime's people have stepped up the
thuggery to higher levels since then.
They tortured to death a city councilman who was then flung off a
ten-story building earlier this month.
And they encircled and beat up leading opposition leader Maria Corina
Machado, likely signaling intent to kill. More…
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