President Nicolás Maduro has locked themselves in the presidential palace of Miraflores in the capital, Caracas, and called on their followers to protect him. Throughout the night, his most faithful followers kept watch over him. To their help they have had the military, which has had an iron ring around the palace, and built the parapet in strategic locations. It shows that Maduro is afraid that the hungry population should charge him.
For the first time since the demonstrations against him were put down with brutal force nearly two years ago, people have gained the courage to again go out on the streets. Last time killed 120 demonstrators by regime forces during the several months of sustained protests. Yesterday pushed the national guard killed thirteen people. The regime’s tactics are as before. The shoots of arbitrary part of the demonstrators in order to intimidate others from to stop up. The only question is whether the strategy will help now?
is the level of young men have lost fear and are prepared to sacrifice their lives to overthrow the regime that run the country in the bottom. 87 per cent of the oil-rich country’s population lives in poverty, a tenth of the residents have fled and those who remain have, on average, lost eleven pounds in weight. For many, it has gone so far that they do not have anything to lose.
To their support, the opposition has the majority of the world’s most powerful countries, that for the first time, managed to act in unison. Just a few minutes after that, the president of parliament, the 35-year-old engineer Juan Guaidó, named himself the country’s interim president admitted the US’s Donald Trump him as Venezuela’s legitimate president. Shortly after did Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Chile and the same thing. Also EU parliament’s president, Antonio Tajani has been clear. He rejects the election in which Nicolas Maduro was re-elected to sit until 2025, and that there was electoral fraud. ”Unlike Maduro has Guaidó a legitimate right to be president”. What he aims at is that Juan Guaidó was elected to parliament in a free and democratic election three years ago.
or not, yesterday’s dramatic development, with hundreds of thousands of protesters on the streets, created a before and after the 23 January. International support has never been as large and the previously fragmented opposition has not been as united in the several years. What still is unclear is how the military will react if the opposition decides to continue to demonstrate today. If the executing more people, it can lead to that the opposition is also taking up arms.
the Opposition leader Juan Guaidós plan is to lead the country until new elections. For most, he is an anonymous politician, who abandoned his career as an engineer to become a student leader. 12 years ago he participated in his first demonstration against the former president Hugo Chávez and protested against the regime off down one of the country’s most popular tv stations. Then, he formed, together with the then leader of the opposition, Leopoldo López, the party Voluntad Popular, who was behind the first large demonstrations five years ago.
for the first time in 2010 and re-elected in 2015. The security services have in the past seized upon him, but had not dared to imprison him. He is now recognised as Venezuela’s legitimate president of the united states and several neighbouring countries, makes it difficult for the regime to get rid of him. If Juan Guaidó is arrested again, the regime once again that it has become a dictatorship that will go to any lengths to retain power over one of the world’s most oil-rich countries.
What aggravates the situation is that Russia, Turkey and China decided to support Maduro. It makes the unrest in Venezuela can be developed into an international conflict.
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