Venezuela’s opposition parties are discussing a plan to wind up their “interim government” and abandon Juan Guaidó’s claim to be the country’s legitimate leader — belated recognition that the US-sponsored attempt to unseat President Nicolás Maduro has failed after nearly four years.
The end of Guaidó’s “interim government” would close the chapter on one of the world’s more bizarre diplomatic experiments. A coalition of more than 50 mainly western nations established formal relations with a shadow opposition administration to try to force regime change in Caracas after allegations that Maduro had rigged his re-election in 2018.
It could also pave the way for the US to ease oil sanctions on the Maduro government, opening up an alternative source of supply for western nations boycotting Russian crude due to its war in Ukraine.
