There is a sense in which everybody has accepted that the way to govern yourself is democratic. And so even with deeply autocratic regimes, invest significant resources and take certain risks in order to pretend to be democratic. Another element of the venezuelian experience you' just talked about is this form of international co operation. There is a very strong economic and political alliance between maduro, his government and the government in rim. These transactions require the active complicitly oso of at least four or five governments. Those governments have all common that they are very autocratic.

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