Two years on, Guaido’s star has dimmed. He’s president only of a shadow government with moral cachet and little more. Although some 5 million Venezuelans have abandoned the country, some high-ranking regime loyalists among them, de facto President Nicolas Maduro is going nowhere. The fumbling autocrat at the Miraflores Palace may have made a hash of the economy and the pandemic, but Maduro controls enough levers of power to game the Dec. 6 National Assembly elections, and so swap out Guaido for a toady in January. By Mac Margolis. Full Text -> BloombergQuint
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