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- Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has said that he has asked his envoy to the United States to meet with US Pentagon officials to cooperate on a solution to the Venezuela political crisis.The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense
- Venezuela has been governed for the past 20 years by the socialist PSUV party.From 1999 to his death in 2013,Hugo Chávez was president.He was succeeded by Nicolás Maduro, who narrowly defeated the opposition candidate in elections.
- In May 2018, Mr Maduro was re-elected to a second term in elections which have widely been dismissed as rigged.However,with the economy in crisis,the head of the National Assembly,Juan Guaidó had declared himself interim president on 23 January.
- Mr Guaidó argued that Mr Maduro has won illegally and that the presidency is therefore vacant,in which case the constitution calls for the head of the National Assembly to step in.
- The US and more than 50 other countries have recognised Mr Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela but Mr Maduro’s key allies,Russia and China, have stuck by the latter.
- India has refused to go along with the US and said that it is for the people of Venezuela to find political solutions to resolve their differences through constructive dialogue and discussion without resorting to violence.




