Venezuela’s Opposition Should Draw Inspiration From an Unlikely Figure
Will María Corina Machado and regime opponents name a proxy candidate to outsmart a dictator desperately trying to stay in power?
Months after signing an overarching political agreement in Barbados that set the stage for free and fair presidential elections in Venezuela this year, the government and the opposition are once more at odds. Nicolás Maduro’s regime is flagrantly moving away from the deal reached last October, leaving the opposition, under the leadership of María Corina Machado, with limited options. In the run-up to the unreasonable deadline to register candidates on March 25, the opposition may take a page from an unlikely figure’s playbook: Juan Domingo Perón in 1973. As talks between opposition...
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