CARACAS - Opposition leader Juan Guaido is challenging President Nicolas Maduro for control of crisis-hit Venezuela, a country plagued by hyperinflation, shortages of basic necessities and rampant violence. In an interview with AFP, Guaido discusses the entry of foreign aid, contact with the military and whether he would be willing to allow the highly-controversial step of foreign military intervention. - Foreign military intervention --Question: Would you use your prerogatives as speaker of the National Assembly and acting president to authorize the intervention of foreign military forces? - Entry of foreign aid --Question: How is the entry of humanitarian aid advancing? - Contact with the military --Question: Why do you think the offer of amnesty for members of the military has not yet produced a massive defection from high command?

Source: Bangkok Post February 09, 2019 07:30 UTC