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Latin America’s other leftist autocracy has not yet come under sustained pressure from the United States
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The democratic opposition is left out in the cold

The regime is opening up the economy, but its political moves lack credibility

Economic growth may accelerate and the regime has become less repressive

Lessons from history for Venezuela and Iran

They explain the country’s slide from democracy to dictatorship

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist