By Mary Beth Sheridan Mary Beth Sheridan Correspondent covering Mexico and Central America Email Bio Follow March 9 at 4:17 PM CARACAS, Venezuela — He rules a nation where inflation is spiraling toward 10 million percent. The United States and about 50 other countries no longer recognize him as president. His popularity has slumped to about 14 percent.
How does Maduro manage to cling to power? The short answer is that the authoritarian leader has the military on his side. He has ensured officers’ loyalty by offering promotions and allowing them to enrich themselves through state businesses and criminal activities, analysts say. Supporters of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro rally during a power outage Friday in Caracas. Guaidó — who has the support of about 60 percent of Venezuelans, according to a recent Datanálisis poll — and the United States have tried a variety of approaches to lure the military away from Maduro. They range from private talks to a proposed Venezuelan amnesty law that would shield officers from future prosecution.
To accept an amnesty, military officers would have to trust that a future government would pardon them and that institutions would follow the law. But it is difficult to predict how a new government would essentially rebuild Venezuela’s institutions, which for two decades have been molded by the “chavista” movement, becoming highly politicized.
The economy has been so devastated by mismanagement and corruption that hunger is widespread, even among mid- and lower-ranking officers. Prices are soaring, and food and medicine are scarce. “We have lots of information suggesting that just as most Venezuelans are clearly unhappy with this regime and want it to come to an end, most members of the Venezuelan military feel the same way,” Elliott Abrams, the U.S. special envoy for Venezuela, said Friday at a news briefing in Washington.
He has Russia inside his pocket.
JUST LIKE THE VIRGINIA GOVERNOR AND ATTY GENERAL RACIST AND WOMEN ABUSER!!!
What you will never see and you will get Mike pompeo of the Venezuelan people, is to see defeated the dignities of a people who want to live in peace and prosperity.
He has clung to power because the people don’t have guns. See the pervious socialist leader confiscated all the guns that were not held by the Army or the government. Pretty much what the Democrats what to do here.
And how Donald Trump is clinging to power...
Easy in Latin countries you can buy ppl votes by simply give them some money or chickens or cows, the point just give them free shit and they be loyal to you till death!! Those are the politics for the rest of the America’s countries
Dictators like their high paying ' job' and hate the unemployment line, that s why..🤣
iamclaudia_
Should you not be asking why Guaido hasn't been able to rally more Venezuelans? + an autocrat would have finished off Guaido
It will eventually come to an end. The only question is when and how.
Fake news and he still has the military’s support.
He is new version of the Nazi system with the different name he use the communist ideas to killed and rob the Venezuelan people, Maduro the Cuban government are running the country with weapons of the civilians had guns we will have different story second amendment rocks
marybsheridan Trump is not Ronald Reagan. Trump's ties to Putin are undermining his successes in Venezuela
Democracy can't work for all kind of people like Venezuela Algeria Stop pushing people to civil war ! We should focus on teaching them step by step and be patient with them! When the world will be able to understand this? secgen رئاسيات_2019 realDonaldTrump الجزائر
Sizin aklınız vatan sevgisine yetmez.!!👊👊
That is the future of the US with Bernie Sanders and AOC
He controls the army
By winning elections stooges ?
through elections, how a democracy is supposed to work
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