Washington is reviving visa revocation as a tool against corruption in Latin America, caught between its political effectiveness and the risk of selective enforcement.
Trump invokes the Venezuelan case to support his election fraud narrative, but the evidence shows that technology has been instrumental in exposing it.
Dialogue between the countries reflects an asymmetric and limited negotiation, in which external pressure seeks structural change while the regime prioritizes its survival.
The initiative driven from Washington is aimed more at exporting political alignments and excluding key actors than at building effective regional cooperation.
