MICHAEL MCKINLEY The decision on December 30 by In the coming weeks and months, most parties in Venezuela’s oppo- negotiations between opposition sition National Assembly to end the representatives and the Maduro interim presidency of Juan Guaidó government, taking place in Mex- was a sad commentary on the state ico City and supported by a con- of play inside the country, the resil- stellation of. [...] pandemic became the primary concern of the region, not nego- Through it all, the United States, the tiations between the Venezuelan European Union and the Lima Group parties. [...] Guaidó’s efforts to provide a con- vincing alternative to the regime and “Throughout the last four allowed Maduro to co-opt or buy off years, the personal courage of elements of the opposition. [...] lombia, the interim government’s most steadfast supporter along- What Now? side the United States, reopened its embassy in Caracas in August Throughout the last four years, the 2022, and the border between the personal courage of individual po- two countries reopened this month. [...] regime Maduro, moreover, is likely to follow It now falls to the full range of the the example of authoritarian gov- democratic opposition to carry on ernments around the globe that are the challenge to Maduro’s authori- finding new ways to resist interna- tarian state.
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