MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Whitney Eulich for Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 14
[....] President Nicolas Maduro has been uncharacteristically quiet about sanctions leveled against his vice president, posting nothing on Twitter, and leaving it to other officials to condemn the US. And no one has mentioned President Trump by name. The change in tactic, some analysts say, comes down to a third-party player: Russia, which is a friend of Venezuela. [....]