Maduro Captured: Venezuela’s Real Battle Begins

ANALYSIS by Susan Katz Keating

Long before the U.S. military strike that captured Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Venezuela was not simply an authoritarian regime awaiting a reckoning. It was a hijacked democracy; a country that began with elections but saw its institutions hollowed out and repurposed by leaders who used power and oil wealth to entrench themselves. Elections became rituals, checks and balances vanished, and corruption became the currency of survival.

That chapter seemingly is over...