The Reason Venezuela’s Maduro Won’t Resign Peacefully

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is facing unprecedented American

military and diplomatic pressure to resign and leave his country peacefully. He is unlikely to take the offer.

The days when dictators could live in gilded exile with fortunes in secret Swiss bank accounts are mostly over, primarily because of global mechanisms for adjudicating human-rights abuses and tracking ill-gotten gains. The 63-year-old strongman doesn’t believe he will get lasting amnesty, analysts said, feeling only safe among the cadre of loyal military men with whom he has spent a decade surrounding himself.