Foreign Affairs is just describing the events and facts. Indeed the Government of Venezuela had many chances to make it right, but in turn continues with the oppression and does nothing about real issues like crime, inflation, corruption, scarcity, freedom of speech and sinking economy. Every time the Government is challenged about these issues, as an excuse they use the same old rhetoric they have been using for 15 years, and blame it to US policies, the neofascist, and the opposition, using the language of hate and insults, that have become their trademark; and soon enough many of the readers will be exposed to that kind of language throughout the comments of this article. And I will be happy to read them, because only in a free country one can do that, and that is not the case of Venezuela.

Foreign Affairs promoting neofascist writers. It's like John Foster Dulles never left.

I would like to know what do you mean by neofascist?

Let me help you with that: "person I disagree with but can't be bothered to argue coherently against."

Foreign Affairs should show what Toro think before publishing his speculation!
Read this articles

http://venezuelanalysis.com...

Agree with your diagnosis, Quico, parsing of the oppo into a tripartite group, and unpacking government's 'radicalization' rationale, so what do you think the opposition should do in response to dialogue proposals from government? does the opening of the opposition's latent divisions help maduro hold it together in short term?

leave venezuela in peace; leave iraq in peace; leave syria in peace; leave lybia in peace; leave libanon in peace; leave yemen in peace; leave somalia in peace ....leave the word in peace (what a canibal are USA)