Venezuelan crisis deepens
Venezuela’s growing social polarisation and slide towards civil war has intensified in recent weeks, the combined result of right-wing destabilisation and the actions of the Maduro government. The current political impasse arises from the unravelling of the “Bolivarian” project of Hugo Chávez. His successor Nicolás Maduro narrowly won the presidential election in 2013, but failed to retain the regime’s popularity with the majority of Venezuelan people. Maduro’s ruling PSUV party lost the National Assembly elections to the right wing opposition in 2015. Last year, the president suspended the...