Maduro seizes Venezuela legislature

By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 01/05/2020 - 4:06pm |

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It's like he's on a mission to govern an empty country. Him and his buddies can have it all to themselves.

by artappraiser on Sun, 01/05/2020 - 4:22pm

#Venezuela #5Enero Another day in office for interim President of #Venezuela @jguaido #believeitornot pic.twitter.com/z0W9jQ6Krs
— Lourdes Ubieta (@lourdesubieta) January 5, 2020

Guaido blocked from Venezuela's congress as impasse deepens https://t.co/oGuw8wveNh
— Jim Clancy (@ClancyReports) January 5, 2020

Juan Guaidó thwarted in chaotic Venezuelan parliamentary vote https://t.co/nZOce7RZm8
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) January 5, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 01/05/2020 - 5:18pm

Seth Ambramson has a few reading suggestions:

SOURCE/ Here's a good starting point for the Trump-Venezuela scandal, which is currently like sixth in the queue of Trump scandals (after, e.g., Trump-China) still waiting to be fully appreciated by the majority of those in American media and U.S. voters: https://t.co/3Ol2BdxnCf
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 5, 2020

SOURCE2/ This Atlantic article gives you a sense of how bonkers the Trump-Venezuela scandal will be once it fully breaks (which is many, many months away, I suspect): https://t.co/nn7XdchoPo
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 5, 2020

SOURCE3/ Here's a starter on the Russia angle (because of *course* there's a Russia angle): https://t.co/emObgrk9WQ
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 5, 2020

SOURCE4/ And here's the part of the waiting-in-the-wings Trump-Venezuela scandal in which we again find Trump having suspicious unofficial channels of information that originate in the Kremlin: https://t.co/IOQ30vaPWK
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 5, 2020

SOURCE5/ Was Giuliani mixing business with shadow diplomacy in Venezuela—as in Ukraine—a scandal with many of the same actors and *related* to the Trump-Ukraine scandal? You bet your ass he was. And so was Pete Sessions—a key player in the Ukraine scandal. https://t.co/64jyYfnCXT
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 5, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 01/05/2020 - 5:23pm

includes good chronological roundup/analysis of what happened recently: Venezuela’s Only Choice Left Juan Guaidó should harness his renewed international support to obtain electoral conditions that lead to free and fair elections.

Guest op-ed @ NYTimes.com by Michael Penfold, a political scientist and a fellow at the Wilson Center. Jan. 18, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 1:50am

Maduro seizes Venezuela legislature

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