Carlos Blanco: Change in Venezuela is inevitable, like the fall of the Berlin Wall'

"Meanwhile, over 600,000 Venezuelans in the United States have lost the protection of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and are now at risk of being deported. Maduro is facing the most severe crisis of his mandate, yet each passing day is another day in power, even as the arrival of the USS Gerald Ford in Caribbean waters and the launch of Operation Southern Spear seem to signal an imminent checkmate."

"From Boston, Carlos Blanco, 78, observes the situation calmly, without rushing to conclusions. For years, he has been one of Machado's main advisers, though his political career began long before that: in the 1980s, he took on the task of reforming the Venezuelan state to free it from the personalism, concentration of power, and corruption inherited from Venezuela's oil rentier system."

Three months after a U.S. naval deployment in the Caribbean, the Venezuelan crisis remains unresolved. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado engages in international economic forums to promote investment prospects while her principal U.S. ally maintains an ambiguous position on next steps. More than 600,000 Venezuelans in the United States have lost Temporary Protected Status and face deportation risk. President Nicolas Maduro confronts the most severe crisis of his mandate even as the arrival of the USS Gerald Ford and launch of Operation Southern Spear suggest heightened external pressure. Carlos Blanco, a 78-year-old longtime reformer and Machado adviser in exile, has deep experience in state reform and could play a central role in post-crisis reconstruction.

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