A palace coup sends Venezuela’s authoritarian leader into exile, sparking a bloody power struggle between members of his disintegrating regime. “Everyone wrestling with this issue [is] sort of hoping that you could wave a magic wand and have a new government [in Venezuela],” said Farah. Miguel Pizarro, another opposition leader, dismissed the suggestion Venezuela was doomed to become a South American version of Iraq, Libya or Haiti if Maduro was toppled. View image in fullscreen Nobel peace prize laureate and Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado speaking in Oslo, Norway, on 11 December. Whatever happened, Farah feared post-Maduro Venezuela was likely to suffer “a huge mess that would last a while”.

Source: The Guardian December 14, 2025 14:32 UTC