Letters From the April 1, 2019, Issue

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Venezuela’s Deadly Blackout Highlights the Need for a Negotiated Resolution of the Crisis

Maduro is corrupt and increasingly repressive, but US sanctions and violence by the US-supported opposition have contributed to Venezuelans’ suffering.

Gabriel Hetland

How AMLO Is Taking on Mexico’s Billion-Dollar Gasoline Thieves

For years, the country’s war on illicit activity has only encouraged more violence. Its new president has a plan to change that.

Kurt Hackbarth and Colin Mooers

Progressives Are Starting to Define a New Realism for Our National-Security Strategy

The weakest response of Democrats to Trump would be to defend the old foreign-policy consensus.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

US Immigration Is Stuck in the Stone Age—and It’s Putting Lives In Danger

In Trump’s America, paperwork can be lethal. 

Daniel Moattar

The End of Our World Order Is Imminent

At least 200 empires have risen and fallen over the course of history, and the United States will be no exception.

Alfred McCoy

Trump’s Other ‘National Emergency’: Sanctions That Kill Venezuelans

The humanitarian crisis will get rapidly worse if the most recent sanctions continue.

Mark Weisbrot

Salvador Allende le ofrece una salida a Maduro

El fallecido presidente chileno comparte algunos consejos desde más allá de la tumba.  

Ariel Dorfman

Trump’s Time-Travel Adventure

One man’s incompetence is another man’s principled discipline.

Tom Tomorrow

Gen. Simón Bolívar, Latin America’s Liberator, Has Advice for the US Military

Trump may be an awful president, but the military has no more right to overthrow him in a coup than he does to overthrow Maduro.

Ariel Dorfman