Venezuelan dictatorship

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was once critical of English. But he now sings John Lennon's "Imagine" and promotes peace with his newest catchphrase "No War, Yes Peace." Venezuela's opposition says this is a display of desperation.

The possibility of relaxing U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan oil to replace banned Russian oil raises a larger issue of whether they have a real effect on the Maduro regime.

The targets on the backs of Venezuelans like Gustavo Marcano grow larger by the day.Marcano is the mayor of the eastern Venezuelan city of Lechería. Like…