The sad reality of Venezuela’s opposition is its meltdown. Agencia EFE gives a good description of how opponents of the Chavez regime have largely drifted over into Miami, where they are both invisible and increasingly irrelevant to the revolution. Coming to the U.S. is, in a sense, a revolution of its own, because it’s a transformative experience, that of becoming a free person, but given the choice between freedom here and fighting a thug at home, most people prefer to melt into the milieu. It’s kind of sad. The regime knows this and is using it as a safety valve to get rid of dissidents to take popular pressure off as its failures become clearer. Mexico has been doing this for decades. This is one revolution that has failed, not because it’s got a Mugabe still willing to shoot but because its own people don’t think it’s worth defending.