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NEW: Millions of Venezuelans have spent the last years on an emotional seesaw, pinning hopes for change on one leader after another, only to watch them fail. On Monday, many said recent events felt like a final, brutal crash.https://nyti.ms/2tzLiZb
A year ago, Carlos Muñoz was planning to leave Venezuela for Peru, following millions of others who have fled the country to find work or escape persecution. When Juan Guaidó appeared, he put his plans on hold. After Sunday, though, he made the decision to leave.
“He lost the assembly,” said Mr. Muñoz of Mr. Guaidó “That was the only thing he had.”
José Caballero, 51, a taxi driver, said that he had survived every year by repeating to himself, “this is the year everything is changing, this is the year.” “And nothing happens,” he went on, “now I don’t want to say anything like that anymore.”
The Trump administration on Monday sought to cast the events in Caracas as a sign that Mr. Maduro’s power was waning.
But at a time when the admin is already facing crises at home — an impeachment inquiry — and abroad — the repercussions of an attack that killed Iran’s most powerful general — Mr. Maduro’s actions suggest the gamble the U.S. took on Guaidó is looking increasingly like a failure.
“It’s impossible to overstate what a huge blow all of this is to U.S. strategy in Venezuela,” said Geoff Ramsey, director of the Venezuela program at the Washington Office on Latin America.
Maduro receives advise from the Cuban regime, which despite its many failures, has been extremely successful in sticking to power. They do not care how unpopular they are. Using Stasi tactics, they spy on everyone and have a firm control of the Country.
Corruption is very difficult to beat....
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