The regime is not feeling the costs it should for the repression, for the blatant fraud. The ICC could elevate those costs, because there is evidence of alleged crimes against humanity. Ordering Maduro’s international arrest could motivate others in his regime to move Venezuela back to democracy. They won’t do that if they don’t feel there is a real threat of accountability abroad.
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