Over a month after US special forces lifted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro out of Caracas under cover of darkness, and flew him to New York to face federal drug trafficking charges, the South American country is navigating a new but uncertain political phase. suspended between rupture and continuity.
The January 3 operation — which country’s interior minister Diosdado Cabello said left at least 100 people dead and 100 wounded — removed the country’s most polarising figure, and a president who had dominated the country’s politics for more than a decade, from office.
