Chavista Regime Attempts to Rewrite Venezuela’s Opposition Landscape Amid Democratic Collapse

In a brazen effort to redefine Venezuela’s political reality, the ruling chavista establishment reiterated claims that a "new opposition" exists—an assertion that dangerously obscures the ongoing decay of democracy under Nicolás Maduro’s regime. At a recent press conference broadcast by state media, Diosdado Cabello, first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and powerful interior minister, proclaimed that those who fail to recognize this "new opposition" are simply "mistaken." Yet, the real question is: who controls this purported new opposition? And what does it signify for freedom and sovereignty in Venezuela—and by extension, for regional stability that...