Time is running out for Venezuela, a nation of 31 million
with perhaps the world’s largest proved reserves of crude oil. The consequences
of its descent for its neighbors and for the United States, whether into
dictatorship, civil war, or bloody chaos, demand an immediate response — well
beyond the call for dialogue, partial targeted sanctions, and resolutions. The
country’s dire conditions are spelled out in headlines and in the public report
of Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General Luis Almagro. That
report cited brutal repression, killings of protesters, torture of political prisoners;
violation of its constitution, according to its own attorney general; violation
of its OAS treaty obligations, and according to the U.N., a man-made
humanitarian disaster. More…
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