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Ryan C. Berg, Lauri Tähtinen, Paul J. Angelo, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Francisco Rodríguez

How Maduro Beat Sanctions

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro gestures at an anti-Trump demonstration in Caracas on Aug. 10, 2019. Carolina Cabral/Getty Images

In August 2017, Venezuela was in the middle of its largest wave of protests in recent history, with a record-breaking 100 consecutive days of rallies. At the time, and alongside brutal acts of repression from Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro regime (such as the killing of more than 100 protesters that year by security forces), there was a nationwide belief the country’s young people would not go home until democracy was restored.

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