Seeking Venezuela's Future in Barrio 23 de Enero

The Dec. 6 election was not a vote for Venezuela's main opposition coalition, which is bound together by little more than its opposition to the populist legacy of former President Hugo Chavez. It was a punitive vote against the inheritors of Chavez's social experiment. The defeat of the PSUV does not point to an immediate and sharp turn to the right under an empowered opposition capable of saving the country with sounder economic policies. In fact, much darker days are likely in store for Venezuela as it undergoes this transition....