defection

Less than three months after the audit letter, in early April, the museum’s director suddenly resigned, and trustee defections began.

The resistance rages that he failed to hold the line against defections.

Customer defections prompted several pay-TV companies to find a compromise to restore the darkened TV channels and stanch the subscriber bleeding.

A short, sharp campaign that dismantles the regime’s coercive tools could trigger elite defection.

If the prime purpose of this military build-up is to threaten Maduro, it is unclear whether it is enough to prompt defections.