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Home / Venezuela / Is Venezuela Any Closer to Democracy? Newsweek Writers Debate
Venezuela, Western Hemisphere

February 11, 2026

Is Venezuela Any Closer to Democracy? Newsweek Writers Debate

A month after the United States deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, what can the Trump administration do to move Venezuela toward democracy? Or was the U.S. intervention about oil all along? Newsweek contributors Dan Perry and Daniel R. DePetris debate.

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