Yup, oposition controlled congress declared president Ripe illegitimate, so there is a real change that congress is going to be simply dissolved.
The special assembly was boycotted by the opposition, making the body that is supposed to rewrite the constitution nothing more than yes men and fellow partisans. Looks like all pretense of democracy is about to go through the window.
This whole "emergency assembly to review constitution" reminds of the french revolution. None of the "rights of men" stuff, of course, more of "reign of terror" stuff that follows right behind.
More or less that. Thanks for asking smjjames, you get to have all my nice stuff after all explodes.
And as said, pretty much that. The real congress got a new president (of the Congress) which stated that they won't recognise Masburro as anything but a usurper after the 10th. Oh and we had a practical devaluation of the 50% today, it's fucking horrible. People are going crazy over the prices of everything and well, food is scarce and overpriced.
Inb4 Trump decides to declare war on and thus 'LIBERATE' Venezuela in an attempt to distract from eveything else bad happening to him. While the thought of declaring war in order to distract from bad things doesn't seem to have crossed his mind as far as I know, I wouldn't put it past him to try doing that.
I read a while back that Bolsonaro was looking into something about intervening in Venezuela and he and/or his sons apparently have contacts with some rebel faction or other in Venezuela. So, maybe Bolsonaro could convince Trump into joining in something. Wouldn't be suprised if Brazil gets left holding the bag at the end and has to deal with the aftermath since it wouldn't be our fault for a change.
Just to be clear though, I wouldn't support just going in, liberating, going rah rah rah, then leaving since that's the same mistake (if paraprased) that we made with Iraq and similarily with other places in the mideast. Besides, this is our own backyard (or, from another perspective, our stomping grounds) we are talking about.
I don't really see Venezuela falling prey to the same kind of factionalism that plagues places in the mideast. Political factionalism if things aren't reconciled, definetly.