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David Smilde

David Smilde is the Charles A and Leo M Favrot Professor of Human Relations at Tulane University and Senior Fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America. He is the outgoing Editor-in-Chief of Qualitative Sociology and curator of the blog Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights. Smilde has published three books and 30 academic articles and chapters on Venezuela, and has written op-eds on Venezuela for the New York Times, Washington Post and US News & World Report.

President Nicolas Maduro attends a ceremony in a suit and sash

Venezuelans want President Maduro out, but most would oppose foreign military intervention to remove him

Global Politics

All credible polling in Venezuela says that most Venezuelans desperately want Maduro out. But that does not necessarily mean they are open to desperate measures.