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Op-ed: 'Dictatorship in Venezuela will soon be reality'
Published: 31 July 2017
Jose Mauricio Gaona is an O’Brien Fellow at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, a Saul Hayes Fellow at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ University’s Faculty of Law, and a Vanier Canada Scholar.
"Sunday’s election in Venezuela of a national constituent assembly does not represent the very beginnings of Mr. Maduro’s dictatorship, but its final ascension. In truth, the actions of Mr. Maduro’s government in the past 12 months are archetypical of a dictatorship, not a democracy."
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