idk what's going on with Venezuela but can you explain the general situation? you would have a better idea of what's going on than an article from google, at least in terms of bias
Sure! Although I’m really not good at explaining, so I’m just going to tell the story from the beggining:
Last year Maduro’s presidential term was over and we needed elections, however, elections in Venezuela haven’t been fair from a long time and most people -including myself- don’t believe in the electoral council since there has been proof they manipulate elections. Giving this and knowing that must of us were not going to vote, the government decided to move the elections from december (which is when they’re usually held) to May. However, these elections were not constitutional for many reasons, some of them are:
-The National Assembly (the congress) didn’t convoke to elections, the Asamblea Nacional CONSTITUYENTE (The pseudo-congress created by Maduro when we won the majority of the seats) did.
-Many politicians from the opposition were declared ineligible by the CNE, as well as their respective parties
-There were no international witnesses because the government didn’t accept them
Also, the participation in them was really low (the lowest percentage in the history of Venezuela, which is known for its high percentage of participation) 46% -according to the government, everyone knows it was lower-
Now, in January 5th Juan Guaidó assumed the charge of president of the National Assembly (more on this later).
In January 10 Maduro “took possession of power”, however, since the elections were declared unconstitutional, his inauguration was unconstitutional as well, with many countries not recognizing him as president of Venezuela. (Some of the few countries that did were Mexico, Bolivia, Russia, China, Turkey, Cuba and Nicaragua). This act was not only unconstitutional because of the factors I already mentioned, but also because he took possession with the Supreme Court (also declared unconstitutional because it was not chosen by the National Assembly) and not with the N.A’s president as the Constitution declares it should be.
Given all of this, the National Assembly’s President, Juan Guaidó, decided to take action evoking the article 233 of the Venezuelan Constitution, which says that if there is no elected president, a new election will take place during the next 30 days, meanwhile this process is done, the president of the National Assembly will be declared interim president of the Republic (I actually took the Constitution out of my bookshelf to translate it lol)
So, today, in a “Cabildo Abierto” (open council) Guaidó was declared in front of all of us interim president of Venezuela (it was important that it must had been done in front of the population to respect what a cabildo abierto is, a council in which decisions are done by the population.
However, Maduro and his government don’t recognize it, since they don’t recognize the National Assembly as legitimate ever since it was elected in 2015 (which is why he created his own parallel Congress and why you can call his government a dictatorship, since the five public powers are controlled by him)
The thing is, although Maduro doesn’t recognize it, the rest of the world does. Many countries including USA, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Perú, Ecuador, Panama, Kosovo, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Georgia, Honduras do, and that’s what’s important
Some hours later, Maduro decided to break diplomatic relations with the US, and gave the people of the embassy 72 hours to leave the country, to which The US responded that they wouldn’t obey, since they do not recognize him as president anymore. This is a huge deal since never before the opposition (which I guess won’t be called like that anymore) never had had so much international support. I will keep informing as more things happen. Hope this helped!
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