Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros Monday spoke of a new campaign against his country and called on all citizens to prevent fascism and a coup d état from filling the streets with violence and sterile confrontation, it was reported in Caracas.
Gauidó has long outlived his usefulness. Now, he and the "interim" government he fronts are an obstacle in the way of reopening Venezuela's oil market to US oil majors.
Opinion: Halting America’s road to becoming Venezuela By Lisa Pierce Flores
A newspaper with Lisa Pierce Flores in the front row.
In 1989, Caracas, Venezuela, was loud and angry and joyful. It was the cosmopolitan heart of the most successful and stable economy in Latin America. At night the lights of mansions perched across the mountains that wreathed the capital’s sunken center shone like a manmade constellation.
But so too did the glow of TV screens in the homes of rancheros, shacks built of salvaged tin and metal and wood planking that housed the country’s poorest citizens in unsanctioned cities along the Cerro El Avila mountains (the northern edge of the Andes), where the industrious but largely unemployed inhabitants risked their lives to loop steel lines to the live wires above to illicitly access TV screens.