Juan Guaidó once proclaimed himself Venezuela’s rightful president to the cheers of crowds and the acclamation of the US, Europe and much of Latin America.
Members of Venezuela’s opposition decided at an online session by 72 votes to 29 on December 30 to scrap Guaidó’s “interim government”, belatedly recognizing its failure to unseat the country’s socialist president Nicolás Maduro. Guaidó’s political stunt, sponsored by the administration of then-US president Donald Trump and backed up with crippling economic sanctions on the Maduro government and Venezuela’s once-mighty oil industry, instead turned into a foreign policy failure for Washington.
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