Then, shortly thereafter, in case anyone missed it, Rodríguez tweeted out the list again: “Don’t miss the opposition leadership’s list of foreign vacation destinations.”

There, plain for anyone to see, is opposition leader Henrique Capriles’ trip to Aruba on Dec. 22, and that María Corina Machado and Leopoldo López, other Maduro-hated politicians, traveled to Frankfurt and Miami, respectively, late in December. Aside from the abuse of government power to share private information, the return dates of the trips weren’t included, so the data don’t even back up the suggestion that Maduro’s opponents didn’t ring in the new year at home—making the publicity stunt not only creepy, but inept.

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