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

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

Lessons from history for Venezuela and Iran

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

The democratic opposition is left out in the cold

They explain the country’s slide from democracy to dictatorship