From selling the vegetables her dad grew on their farm in Mérida to joining Voluntad Popular as an activist, Fabiana Rosales carries the torch for a new generation of Venezuelans who came of age fighting the dictatorship.
Caretaker President Juan Guaidó is putting an offer of amnesty for security personnel who back him at the center of his discourse. But as a legal text, his Amnesty Bill is seriously undercooked.
There's a thing that happens when Guaidó talks. A quiet energy, that moves his long-suffering audience like a jolt. Listen to Guaidó among a group of Venezuelans abroad, and you can't miss it.
Rallying international support for recognizing AN Speaker Juan Guaidó as caretaker president was —and remains— an audacious, high-risk gambit. It could still go very wrong. But, right now...it’s working.
The third item in Caretaker President Guaidó’s plan, organizing free and fair elections, would take three months at the very minimum. And it's not just about getting rid of the chavista die-hards on the electoral board.
Guaidó from Chacao and on the internet, Maduro from Miraflores in a mandatory broadcast. One of them was determined, confident, conciliatory. The other one was Maduro.
Humanitarian aid may finally be on its way, thanks to a request from Caretaker President Juan Guaidó, but the politics surrounding poses clear risks.
Yesterday’s protests were peaceful in the East of the city. In the hardscrabble West side, where I live, it was bedlam.
With even Cesar Miguel Rondón’s venerable radio show now forced into silence, Venezuela hasn’t seen censorship on this scale since the 1950s.
The rally that saw Juan Guaidó claim the presidency today was one of the strangest events of the last 20 years. The regime. Just. Froze. And history was in the air.
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