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The Political Aftershocks of Venezuela’s Earthquakes
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- CARACAS—When U.S. forces seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3, Washington did not hand power to opposition candidate Edmundo González, the real winner of Venezuela’s fraudulent 2024 election.
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CARACAS—When U.S. forces seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3, Washington did not hand power to opposition candidate Edmundo González, the real winner of Venezuela’s fraudulent 2024 election. Instead, U.S. President Donald Trump chose to install Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro’s vice president, as his replacement. White House officials thought she would be a disciplined and technocratic administrator willing to govern under U.S. tutelage and open Venezuela to foreign investors, per New York Times reporting.
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