In this week’s editors’ discussion on Trend Lines, WPR’s Judah Grunstein, Elliot Waldman and Laura Weiss talk about the ASEAN Regional Forum in Bangkok, the mounting criticism over Venezuela’s human rights abuses, and a cease-fire in Mozambique that ended a return to violence 27 years after the end of civil war.

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