As a person who has been following Venezuela for years, who writes about it and who knows every nook and cranny of what's happening there, all I can say is that I pray that Maduro dies as soon as possible, for the sake of the 30 million people who are suffering under a corrupt military dictatorship.
Maduro has stolen elections, destroyed the Constitution, impoverished the country and currently rules as an absolute dictator with no checks and balances and is held in power solely by the force of the army.
People who know my politics will know I'm the last person to cheerlead on the US, Trump or conservatives of any kind. But, by claiming to be the "left", Maduro is getting away with a takeover of the Supreme Court, illegalisation of Parliament, utterly deranged economic policies that have sent the country into starvation and the destruction of any veneer of democracy, and people will cheer him up because "he says he's the left so he must be good, every problem is the US's fault".
Imagine if Trump got rid of all left-wing Justices and installed Jeanine Pirro, Jared Kushner and Sean Hannity into the Supreme Court during the lame-duck session after losing the midterms. Then it declared the US House "unconstitutional" because of the NC-9 election fraud and declared every action in the House illegal forever because of it. Then announced he had single-handedly decided to create a new "Constitutional Assembly" with absolute power to do anything and pass any law, with no limits or checks, despite the fact the US Constitution doesn't exactly provide for that in those terms. Then he announced that "every county would elect a member", regardless of whether it had 100 or 7 million inhabitants, in order to ensure a whooping majority of Republicans from thousands of tiny rural counties while all of NYC is represented by one single democrat. All of that while imprisoning Sanders, Warren, Beto and Biden for trumped-up reasons and causing mass starvations and electrical failures across the country. And a hyperinflation so ridiculous it sounds like a joke. And constant repression, with death squads kidnapping and murdering people who are deemed to step out of the line, including journalists and politicians (the lower-ranked ones, mayors and stuff, the people nobody cares about abroad).
That is all Maduro is doing. And he's held up as some sort of bad weather that has to be endured smiling because, welp, the US is bad so bad luck Venezuelans. You all have to starve and die with no chance of ever changing the system because your dictator won't allow you to.
It's disheartening. Really.
If you want to read stories about Venezuela free of Maduro propaganda, check this site:
https://www.caracaschronicles.com/
(Also Europe being 56-44 for Guaidó- I'll dispute that, thank you).
