The actions of Cuba, China, Russia, and Iran to shore up Maduro’s regime have helped insulate him from significant US pressure. Yet, the length of this current respite depends in large part on the strength of the EU’s resolve to play a greater role in ending Venezuela’s crisis. Every day the wealth of Venezuelans keeps shifting to the offshore bank accounts of regime cronies, the country’s return to democratic prosperity recedes into the future. The Biden administration is right to expect more from the EU, as are the Venezuelans left to suffer under a crumbling and predatory state. A bloc of vibrant democracies committed to the fate of democracy and human rights in the world should aim for more than flowery declarations and Sakharov Prize ceremonies celebrating the Venezuelan opposition.
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