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#The former regime of Nicolás Maduro has systematically violated the human rights and dignity of citizens, looted the country's natural resources, and led a previously prosperous nation to economic ruin under Maduro's authoritarian government and its economic policies. ruinous. Maduro's thugs are reported to have committed killings and physical abuse, detained political opponents and seriously interfered with the exercise of freedom of expression, all in a brutal effort to retain power.