No question that Juan Guaido is a CIA asset and some neoliberal plot to plunder Venezuela's oil reserves.

But the way Maduro basically declared a new legislative branch and stacked both it and the supreme court full of loyalists is shitty too. Was it primarily a measure to stave off a coup attempt? Just rings a little "undemocratic". Am I reading into the history incorrectly?

  • HarryLime [any]
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    4 years ago

    I believe the creation of the new legislature and court was part of a constitutional reform that had been promised years before.

    • ColonelKernel [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Do you have more information on that? I thought the National Assembly was built under Chavez.

      • HarryLime [any]
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        4 years ago

        I don't sorry. I wish someone with more information would chime in.