María Corina on Bloomberg:

“The increase in pressure and the escalation taking place is the only way to force Maduro to understand it’s time to go (…) and his last chance to facilitate a peaceful and orderly transition.”

“People will go out [take the streets] in the right time, and that’s being prepared as we speak.”

The Economist on the famous aircraft carrier:

“The USS Gerald R. Ford is a ‘use or lose asset’, notes CSIS, because the Pentagon will be reluctant to keep one of the navy’s most important warships in Latin America for a prolonged period unless it is needed.”