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2020 Barquisimeto Shooting
The 2020 Barquisimeto shooting occurred on 29 February 2020, when pro-government Colectivo (Venezuela), colectivos shot at the Speaker of the National Assembly (Venezuela), National Assembly of Venezuela Juan Guaidó and his supporters in Barquisimeto, Lara (state), Lara state during a demonstration, leaving ten injured. Background A power struggle concerning who is the legitimate President of Venezuela began on 10 January 2019, when the opposition-majority National Assembly (Venezuela), National Assembly declared that incumbent Nicolás Maduro's 2018 Venezuelan presidential election, 2018 re-election was invalid; that the office of the President of Venezuela was therefore vacant; and declared its president, Juan Guaidó, to be acting president of the nation. As of February 2020, Guaidó had been Responses to the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis#RecognitionMG, recognized as the interim president of Venezuela by 54 countries, including the United States and most nations of Lati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venezuelan Presidential Crisis
The Venezuelan presidential crisis was a political crisis concerning the leadership and the legitimate president of Venezuela between 2019 and 2023, with the nation and the world divided in support for Nicolás Maduro or Juan Guaidó. Venezuela is engulfed in a political and economic crisis which has led to more than seven million people leaving the country since 2015. The process and results of the 2018 presidential elections were widely disputed. The opposition-majority National Assembly declared Maduro a usurper of the presidency on the day of his second inauguration and disclosed a plan to set forth its president Guaidó as the succeeding acting president of the country under article 233 of the Venezuelan Constitution. A week later, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice declared that the presidency of the National Assembly was the "usurper" of authority and declared the body to be unconstitutional. Minutes after Maduro took the oath as president, the Organization of American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
