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Is Venezuela Inching Toward The End Of Democracy?

NPR | By William Dobson

Published August 1, 2017 at 3:29 PM CDT

In Venezuela, the arrest of opposition politicians overnight mark a shift towards dictatorship.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with William Dobson, NPR's chief international editor, about how Venezuela reached this tipping point. And she speaks with a Venezuelan man in Caracas about what daily life looks like amid the protests and what his concerns are now.

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