Guaido is also being accused by Maduro of fomenting street violence and publicly challenging his authority as the duly elected president of Venezuela.
Guaido says it's all falsehood and pretense: Maduro was never duly elected; he packed the Supreme Court with his cronies; and the Constituent Assembly was illegally crafted to replace the National Assembly that had increasingly become a thorn in Maduro's side as it rejected many of his totalitarian policies.
Cuban troops have long insinuated themselves into the highest levels of Maduro's administration and surveillance agencies to serve as guardians of Maduro's administration.
For instance Maduro is keeping a dozen American citizens behind bars despite Vice President Mike Pence's demand for their "Immediate release." There are an estimated 39 foreign journalists that Maduro has arrested and put behind bars for anti-Maduro and anti-fatherland reporting and investigations.
What Maduro appears to be banking on, as are Russia and Cuba, is that Trump's implied threat of military intervention to remove Maduro by force - "All options are on the table" - is just a bluff, a chip in the big game, a negotiating tactic and not a real threat.
The risk is that Trump remains true to his word and does ramp up, directly or indirectly, frontally or behind the scenes, sufficient military intervention to free the citizens of Venezuela from Maduro's tyranny.
Either way, Maduro is upping the ante, and the risk, in Venezuela.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/south-america/item/31917-venezuela-s-marxist-leader-raises-the-stakes-in-bid-to-retain-control?vsmaid=4080&vcid=8714
Guaido says it's all falsehood and pretense: Maduro was never duly elected; he packed the Supreme Court with his cronies; and the Constituent Assembly was illegally crafted to replace the National Assembly that had increasingly become a thorn in Maduro's side as it rejected many of his totalitarian policies.
Cuban troops have long insinuated themselves into the highest levels of Maduro's administration and surveillance agencies to serve as guardians of Maduro's administration.
For instance Maduro is keeping a dozen American citizens behind bars despite Vice President Mike Pence's demand for their "Immediate release." There are an estimated 39 foreign journalists that Maduro has arrested and put behind bars for anti-Maduro and anti-fatherland reporting and investigations.
What Maduro appears to be banking on, as are Russia and Cuba, is that Trump's implied threat of military intervention to remove Maduro by force - "All options are on the table" - is just a bluff, a chip in the big game, a negotiating tactic and not a real threat.
The risk is that Trump remains true to his word and does ramp up, directly or indirectly, frontally or behind the scenes, sufficient military intervention to free the citizens of Venezuela from Maduro's tyranny.
Either way, Maduro is upping the ante, and the risk, in Venezuela.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/south-america/item/31917-venezuela-s-marxist-leader-raises-the-stakes-in-bid-to-retain-control?vsmaid=4080&vcid=8714
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