In 1999, he became assistant managing editor for national news and oversaw coverage of the 2000 presidential election campaign.
Diehl noted in his column, that asylum decisions should be nonpolitical, but under Hillary Clinton's State Department, a strategy of avoiding "scrapes" with Chavez, left people like Mezerhane danger.
[9] In his column he wrote: "The price of this policy is borne by Chavez’s victims — journalists, union leaders, businessmen, would-be opposition presidential candidates — whom he persecutes and frequently drives out of Venezuela.
The administration rarely speaks up for these beleaguered defenders of human rights and democracy; and when it does, then only at a low level.
The lights are back on in Caracas, once-empty stores are full of goods, and the U.S.-backed opposition has been ousted — at least physically — from the National Assembly.
Trump’s demand — that Maduro leave office and make way for fresh elections — won’t be realized anytime soon.