Tag: Nicolas Maduro

Maduro is more authoritarian and apparently more entrenched in his position than ever.

Washington cannot let Maduro's actions go unanswered.

Maduro’s open defiance of Biden casts doubt on the ability of the U.S. president to lead the world’s major power.

There is no room for deviation in one's direction, not even in diplomacy.

Colombians were treated like convenient idiots, and we lost bipartisan support that took us decades to build.

The road ahead is full of obstacles.

[T]he Venezuelan leader could not imagine that manna in the shape of $3 billion would rain down on him without lifting a finger toward democracy

[T]he Venezuelan government ... does not have the capacity to accept compromises with anyone.

Direct negotiation with Maduro could potentially ... initiate a democratization process in Venezuela.

[Maduro] has something without which the U.S. will have a hard time supporting its import ban on Russia: oil.

[T]he Venezuelan leader is supposed to strike a deal with the very people who placed a bounty on his head.

That is the Gordian knot of sanctions.