{"id":2970,"date":"2023-01-01T03:47:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T09:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2023-03-13T02:50:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T07:50:44","slug":"venezuela-votes-out-us-backed-opposition-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=2970","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Venezuela votes out US-backed opposition leader<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Guaido led at least one failed attempt to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro and received vocal support from Washington<br \/>\nOpposition lawmakers in Venezuela have voted to dissolve the \u2018interim government\u2019 formed under their one-time leader, Juan Guaido, a main rival to the country\u2019s ruling socialist party and once a darling of the US foreign policy establishment.<br \/>\nHolding their\u00a0vote\u00a0over a Zoom call, the opposition-controlled National Assembly moved to reorganize their movement on Friday, with 72 lawmakers voting in favor of disbanding the legislature compared to just 29 opposed. Guaido\u2019s term at the head of the assembly, as well as his \u2018interim presidency\u2019 declared in 2019 with the blessing of the US, are now set to end on January 5.<br \/>\n\u201cVenezuela needs new machinery in this struggle,\u201d\u00a0lawmaker Juan Miguel Matheus of the opposition Justice First party said after the vote, adding that Guaido\u2019s tenure as interim leader\u00a0\u201cwas something that was supposed to be temporary, but it became something perpetual.\u201d<br \/>\nGuaido and his supporters, meanwhile, have argued that dissolving the interim\u00a0government could spell the demise of any unified opposition movement, insisting it will only bolster the power and influence of Maduro, who has been deemed an illegitimate leader by Washington and a long list of allies.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is not about defending Guaido. This is about not losing the important tools that we have in this struggle,\u201d\u00a0Guaido said.<br \/>\nThe shake-up in the opposition leadership follows several years of failed efforts to oust Maduro from power, including a series of heated street protests and an outright coup attempt in 2019. While Guaido and fellow opposition leaders failed to inspire mass defections among the security forces as hoped, the ill-fated putsch enjoyed open support from US officials.<\/p>\n<p>Rt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/569220-venezuela-vote-juan-guaido\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/569220-venezuela-vote-juan-guaido\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Guaido led at least one failed attempt to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro and received vocal support from Washington Opposition lawmakers in Venezuela have voted to dissolve the \u2018interim government\u2019 formed under their one-time leader, Juan Guaido, a main rival to the country\u2019s ruling socialist party and once a darling of the US foreign policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3173,3176,3175,3172,3174],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-juan-guaido","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-opposition-lawmakers","tag-venezuela","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7340,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/7340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}