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Venezuela’s Interim President Juan Guaido: A Timeline to Explain #23Ene
Venezuela now has an interim president. But Nicolas Maduro is still president. How does that work? Why is this happening precisely on January 23rd? What’s going to happen now?
Venezuela is back on the headlines of pretty much all media, but not for the news we’ve gotten used to see for the last FIVE years: outrageous poverty, a collapsed healthcare system, violence, and the Venezuelan exodus… What we call the destruction of any bearable living conditions for 32 million people.
This time, Venezuela is on the headlines — and will continue to be throughout the year, for sure — because of what could be the most uncanny political event in Latin American history: the leader of the National Assembly (the Congress) proclaimed himself as interim president of Venezuela, which has been under the presidency of Nicolas Maduro after Hugo Chavez’s death.
His name is Juan Guaido, and he represents the Legislative body of the country, composed by 167 members elected by direct, universal and secret votes.
Yes, him (more details in this NYT’s profile):
