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By suspending the process to carry out a recall referendum on President Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela became the only country in Latin America since the late 1970s to experience the transition to a full dictatorship.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)Up until the 1990s, Venezuela was one of the longest-running and most stable uninterrupted liberal democracies in Latin America. Today, it is an authoritarian regime. In nineteen years, Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro, managed to destroy the system of checks and balances, end free and fair elections, and terminate political rights and civil liberties. The government has delayed and canceled elections, circumvented the authority of the elected legislature, imprisoned political opponents without trial, used lethal force against protesters, and banned opposition parties.
Tras decir en una carta abierta a Leopoldo López que su condena es 'el final de la democracia en Venezuela['], el secretario general de la OEA, Luis Almagro, aseguró a CNN en Español que Nicolás Maduro se estaría convirtiendo en 'un dictador' por negarle a los venezolanos su 'derecho de decidir su futuro político'.
Up until the 1990s, Venezuela was one of the longest-running and most stable uninterrupted liberal democracies in Latin America. Today, it is an authoritarian regime. In nineteen years, Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro, managed to destroy the system of checks and balances, end free and fair elections, and terminate political rights and civil liberties. The government has delayed and canceled elections, circumvented the authority of the elected legislature, imprisoned political opponents without trial, used lethal force against protesters, and banned opposition parties.
'The government has just killed the only democratic window left,' said Nicmer Evans, a leftist political analyst who is deeply critical of Maduro. 'The government went from being a competitive authoritarian [regime] to absolute authoritarianism,' he told the Venezuelan news website Efecto Cocuyo.
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