Maduro defied and violated our Constitution, gave a “minimalist” speech of several hours in the wrong building and to the wrong people, justice Maikel Moreno stumbled with the script and AN Speaker Juan Guaidó called for an open assembly and unity.
Newsflash: The National Assembly was shut down. Years ago. It’s just that the government, in an inspired bit of next-generation authoritarianism, never told us.
Year after year the opposition stages symbolic fights that show it hasn’t really digested the reality of the National Assembly’s complete powerlessness.
January 10th creates a unique situation that calls for a political solution, not a Constitutional one. What is needed now is for the National Assembly, as a legitimate power, to step up.
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