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Arresting economists is the last resort of Venezuela's bankrupt regime

Having locked up opposing politicians, honest judges, journalists and anyone else likely to resist his rule, Maduro has spent the last couple of months arresting a completely new category of enemy.

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Gerald Warner
Jul 24, 2025
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (via Alamy/ 2S64E1N)

Most people are broadly familiar with the condition of the squalid failed state that is Cuba, a monument to 66 years of communist rule, of the …

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