Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s autocrat, is winning
Juan Guaidó, the main opposition politician, has just fled the country
His propagandists call him “Super Moustache”, and his government has handed out plastic toys depicting him as a hero in a cape. But in reality Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s despotic president, has only one superpower: an extraordinary ability to cling to office regardless of the wishes of his compatriots, as events this week have shown.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “A super-sticky dictatorship”
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