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

Economic growth may accelerate and the regime has become less repressive

Some Republicans fret about a quagmire, and the president’s contempt for democracy

It seems more collaborative than coercive. That will worry the democratic opposition

The regime that was led by Nicolás Maduro may well prove tricky to control

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