This means that he no longer has a claim against Maduro, and the US will have to invent some other puppet to use.
I doubt they will. I think from a political point of view, since more and more countries accepting Guadio, there is no way back. This coup will continue until Maduro is gone.
Whatever other countries support is meaningless. If de-facto power is held by Maduro - and that means that he has sufficient support from the military - you can say that the president is Mickey Mouse and will have the same effect.
Perhaps on a country with strong links with the international community, it could matter... just a bit.
the last US president of Venezuela ( Rafael Caldez ) [...] resulted in the election of Hugo Chavez
Whenever the US of A try to establish a sock puppet in a foreign country, it somehow backfires.
27,255 tortured and 2,279 executed. In addition, some 200,000 people suffered exile
It is a success story for the United States. Obviously not for the Chileans or not for a large majority of them.
The underlying problem is the constant belief of the United States goverments in solving their issues with latin american countries by means o obliterating any government that oposes their economic interests, but with little regard on how stable can be the society that has to "endure" such governments. The result cannot be other than a shift to the opposite sign as soon as the imposed goverment has a sign of weakness and then again, an expensive, inhuman and antidemocratic intervention... rinse a repeat.
It just seems that USA is unable to apply
