How to use tech to outsmart dictators Leopoldo López

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Sep 17, 202621:42Society & Culture

In seven years as a political prisoner in Venezuela, activist Leopoldo López kept asking one question: Who holds the keys to freedom? Now the leader of an alliance of dissidents and exiles from more than 60 countries, he...

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