defection

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.

Reform, which has one MS after the defection of Laura Ann Jones, said it would not support a budget that continues to fund the Nation of Sanctuary policy.

Calls from the opposition for the military and security forces to abandon President Maduro have so far not produced significant defections.