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[44] [45] [46] This action performed by President Maduro made General Padrino one of the most powerful people in Venezuela, possibly "the second most powerful man in Venezuelan politics". [ 45 ] [ 47 ] The appointment of Padrino was also seen to be similar to the Cuban government's tactic of granting the Cuban military the power to manage Cuba ...
Maduro meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on 26 September 2016. The Supreme Tribunal took over the legislative powers of the National Assembly in March, provoking the 2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis; a Corrales opinion piece in the Washington Post asked, "What happens next for the dictatorship of President Nicolás Maduro?"
Guaidó acknowledged he had received insufficient military backing, [254] but added that "Maduro did not have the support nor the respect of the Armed Forces" [257] and called for strikes beginning on 2 May, with the aim of a general strike later in the month. [253] Russia and the US each charged the other with interference in another country's ...
When Maduro took over, he was intent on finding a way to "consolidate power," Turkewitz explains. She acknowledges that Chávez called himself a socialist but implies that he was misusing the term.
Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González on Monday said his campaign has the proof it needs to show that he was the winner of the country's highly anticipated presidential election whose ...
Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz meeting with President Maduro on 1 April 2017. In reporting the story, The New York Times noted that in the previous few months Maduro had been swiftly consolidating power, and the Assembly was considered by many to be the sole remaining counterbalance to the President's control. It also noted that following ...
Venezuela's military has long supported Maduro, in power since 2013, and there have been no public signs since the election that leaders of the armed forces are breaking from the government.
A public statement made from the government of Rodrigo Chaves Robles stated that it did not recognize Maduro's election, repudiating it and calling it "fraudulent." It added that it will work together with the "democratic governments" of the continent as well as international organizations to ensure that the "will of the Venezuelan people" was ...