The Venezuelan Opposition Has a Choice
As bad as things look, the country’s democratic forces broke through a similar jam in 1958.
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Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Sources: Federico Para / AFP / Getty; Mateo Lanzuela / Europa Press / Getty; Rune Hellestad / Getty. What Democracy in Venezuela Would Require
Toppling a dictatorship is easier than building a functional state to take its place.
Jesus Vargas/ Picture Alliance / Getty How Authoritarians Turn Rural Areas Into Their Strongholds
Across the world, leaders withhold property rights to cement their control even as they impoverish their own people.
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