How Nicolas Maduro Is Surviving ‘Maximum Pressure’ in Venezuela

For this week’s interview on Trend Lines, Raul Gallegos joins WPR’s Elliot Waldman for a conversation about how President Nicolas Maduro has been able to hang on to power in Venezuela despite a crippling economic and humanitarian crisis and an international pressure campaign to remove him from office.

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