'Venezuela socialist party takes control of once-defiant congress' - Al Jazeera
aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/5/venezuelas-social...Posted Jan 6, 2021, 11:31 AM UTC
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 83%. (I'm a bot)
Recent opinion polls show support for Guaido having fallen by more than half since he first rose to challenge Maduro two years ago.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has managed to retain a solid grip on power and the military, the traditional arbiter of political disputes He calls Guaido a US-backed puppet seeking to overthrow him in a coup to control Venezuela's considerable oil reserves, and has barred opposition legislators from meeting in congressional headquarters, and also pushed dozens of legislators into exile.
The looming inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden on January 20, after years of escalating US sanctions and diplomatic pressure on Maduro under Trump, represents another uncertainty for Guaido.
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My guess....they would have more resources to steal
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It's well known that Venezuela was a paradise until 2019, there was literally zero problems in the country until the sanctions started.
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Can't get worse at this point...
It can man, it can. As a Venezuelan, every single time I think "okay that's it, we've hit rock bottom. There is no possible way this can get any worse".
And then destiny comes around and proves me wrong because somehow the government managed to screw things up even worse.
And it's a never-ending cycle, you think you are at the bottom of the pit so the only thing you can is go up, but instead you and your peers just keep digging further down.
Venezuela is a nightmare.