On Sunday, an estimated two-thirds of Venezuelans, according to exit polls, voted for the opposition candidate—a brave, if fanciful, thing to do in a country ruled by a 25-year-old regime that gave no indication it would honor the results. “To face a dictatorship with hope is a bit like facing a bullet with a flower,” an activist from Voto Joven, an organization that encourages young people to vote, told me on condition of anonymity out of concern about reprisals.
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