Does the Venezuelan exodus weaken or strengthen Maduro?

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Editor's Note: Carlos Alberto Montaner is a writer and political analyst at CNN. His columns are published in dozens of newspapers in Spain, the United States and Latin America. Montaner is also vice president of the Liberal International.

(CNN Spanish) - One of the greatest exodus in history is that of Venezuelans.

According to the United Nations, these are more than four million people.

In the face of this painful phenomenon there are at least two positions: that of those who think that there are more factors that favor the regime than those that harm it.

Those who think that the exodus favors the regime believe that if those millions of human beings had stayed in Venezuela, the regime would have imploded. That is the "pressure cooker theory".

I do not believe in her. It seems to me that those who support it are extrapolating the laws of physics to a political and police phenomenon that is not governed by those rules.

North Korea barely has exiles and does not implode. Bolivia does not implode, despite its population not fleeing en masse.

In my opinion, the USSR and its European satellites had very little emigration and imploded.

The communist Germans erected a wall to prevent people from fleeing.

If Stasi had believed that the system did not favor the existence of the wall, he would not have defended it.

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The totalitarian regimes have an almost hermetic system to sustain themselves in power that only cracks when the ruling dome cedes.

It is absurd, immoral and counterproductive to ask Venezuelans not to abandon a sinking ship.

The reasonable thing is to help them recover their freedoms as soon as possible, but that requires societies and nations capable of forging a joint and active foreign policy. Something that democracies in Latin America have always lacked.