Today, Venezuela’s opposition returned to the National Assembly they boycotted five years ago. They come armed with a sizable minority that, if this were a government that followed the Constitution, would have the power to limit Hugo Chávez’s untrammeled authority. Regrettably, thanks to an illegal power grab by the outgoing Assembly, the new legislature has been…

As if taking away their power to legislate wasn’t enough, today AN Chief Inquisitor Cilia Flores is announcing a Reform to the Rules on Debates inside the National Assembly. You know what comes next: the majority will decide who gets to speak and who doesn’t. The opposition deputies, the ones representing a majority of Venezuelan voters,…