RE: The Latin American Report # 202

I find the Venezuelan issue, which I will return to later today, very interesting. Maduro has done all he has wanted. In the beginning, the West said that the limit was in the disqualification of Maria Corina. Still, they silently accepted the fact that she was not going to be on the final ballot. Now they asked Maduro to allow the designated substitute to run, something he has not consented to. An official of the WH has made a rather quiet statement on the situation, as if with little desire to restart the sanctions. So it seems to confirm his views on the matter.

On the rest of your comment, I have always found the crossovers from one camp to the other between Democrats and Republicans very interesting, or the support given to both political formations by big donors like Trump--before running for office. It has also seemed to me that the Republicans are more "democratic" when it comes to choosing their representative in the presidential elections, unlike the "Democrats", who have always reserved for themselves the ability to choose a certain candidate according to the interests of the party bosses.