Juan Guaidó meets international allies, acting and perceived as the actual, legitimate president; Nicolás Maduro says it's perfectly fine to have a foreing minister from another nation present at your cabinet meetings; Deputy Gilber Caro is reportedly alive and well.
The caretaker President is already in Bogota for a counter-terrorism summit. He has met with President Iván Duque and hopes to meet with Mike Pompeo and other Foreign ministers.
Chavismo is hellbent on decomposing opposition party Primero Justicia and hold Parliamentary elections this year, and the fake opposition is more than happy to help; International scorn piles up against the Maduro regime.
2020 might be the stage for new parliamentary elections in which chavismo expects to revert the effects of MUD’s 2015 victory. In the meanwhile, harassment and coercion have scraped off the opposition majority.
The crisis in Venezuela extends to all sectors, yet Margarita Cadena’s documentary, “Women of the Venezuelan Chaos,” displays how women are distinctly touched—and how they fight back against the turmoil.
Luis Parra and his made-up legislative board tried to start a parliamentary session today, and they literally ran off when the actual board, along with other opposition deputies, showed up for work. The events of Sunday 5th still generate ripples in foreing and domestic arenas.
Using police and military personnel, chavismo kept most of the journalists and opposition lawmakers out of the Legislative Palace, in order to appoint a loyal board led by a corrupt deputy. But Juan Guaidó was reelected as speaker in an official session.
Venezuelan migration is today the largest displacement crisis the Americas has ever seen, and globally the second largest after Syria’s. The predictions for 2019 became true: there are now at least 4.7 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees in the world
It was a year where political change looked closer than ever in two decades of chavismo. However, hope dissolved again. But this defeat was different: it left an...
2019 felt more like an endurance test: we went through a lot during these 12 months. This time around, the compilation will be more focused on the events and larger themes that shaped the country this year instead of a larger chronological review.
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