Tamara Taraciuk Broner, director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue: “The Maduro regime is buying time—to wear out the opposition, to scare people not to mobilize, to divert international attention and to limit dissidence by pushing people out of the country. González is now one of the 7.8 million Venezuelans who were forced to leave. He also represents a new wave of massive migration expected to occur if the crisis is not solved properly, this time of people fleeing persecution who could present legitimate asylum claims. The regime will try to use González’s departure to demoralize and divide the opposition, and it is up to the opposition to stay united and focus on an uncontested fact: the underlying reality has not changed. The regime failed to back up its alleged electoral victory and is scaling up repression. The opposition published evidence showing González won by a landslide. No democratic government in the region, including left-wing ones that in the past failed to…”