[The European Conservative] Venezuela’s Rightful Leaders Haven’t Said Their Last Word

Doubting the integrity of opposition figureheads puts a gloss on the regime’s cruelty.

If moral high ground, in a rosier world, secured the upper hand in politics, Edmundo González would have likely launched in Madrid a global tour touting the odds-defying Venezuelan transition kicked into sequence by his July 28 landslide.

Site to a lively diaspora swollen in sync with the oil-rich nation’s descent into socialist dystopia, the city is also a hobnob venue for right-of-center leaders from across Ibero-America, vying with Miami for the title of Hispanic freedom mecca. This, in spite of the ocean’s distance from which Spain leverages, on the EU’s diplomatic behalf, its cultural ties to the continent. Madrid’s role as a beacon seems also unaffected by the country’s enabling role, under socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, in the wider region’s Bolivarian firmament of left-wing struggle.

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