Venezuela Opposition Savors Long-craved Triumph, Unity Now Key

In a side room of an affluent Caracas hotel, the wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez locked hands with the spouses of other detained politicians on Sunday night as they waited for the results of Venezuela's legislative elections. When it became clear the opposition had claimed a crushing victory, fireworks and screams erupted around them. Defeated at the polls time and again during 17 years of "Chavismo," the leftist movement founded by late leader Hugo...

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