Can’t We Give Venezuela’s Opposition a Little Credit?
Can’t We Give Venezuela’s Opposition a Little Credit?
Everybody likes to rip the anti-Chavista opposition. Here are 8 reasons why they’re wrong.
Venezuela’s opposition is perhaps one of Latin America’s most criticized political forces. Even within the opposition itself, critics abound. Every opposition voter I meet has a long list of complaints about the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD, in Spanish), the grand coalition of parties that since 2008 has led the opposition to Chavismo and now President Nicolás Maduro. Self-flagellation seems to be the MUD’s dominant political ideology.
It is easy to understand why the opposition gets little respect. Eighteen years after the election of Hugo Chávez, the opposition has not yet...
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