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.
In just nine months, Trump has launched an unprecedented offensive combining centralization of power, attacks on the rule of law, and political use of the law to push the U.S. toward autocracy.