Editorial: El Mundo

• The chavismo, in a moral and political crisis, relies on fraud and violence to win elections.
• The international community must act to contain Maduro's regime, increasingly delegitimized and isolated.
• José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, plays a controversial role by supporting a government that violates human rights and represses the opposition.
• Polls show an insurmountable gap between chavismo and opposition.
• The opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has succeeded in uniting the opposing forces and reanimating a politically and emotionally fractured country.
• Chavismo takes refuge in propaganda, fraud machinery and brute force to avoid a power shift.
• Chavismo's tactics include the use of state resources and the suppression of electoral participation.
• The pacifying actions of the regime, carried out largely by Spain, have only reinforced the repression.

Conclusion: The international community has the duty to facilitate a transition that would bring not only a new cycle of democracy, freedoms and prosperity in Venezuela; but would also give hope to an entire continent where millions of people are still hostages of dictatorships like the Cuban or Nicaraguan one.

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