Opinion: Venezuela’s Juan Guaidó got double-crossed. But Nicolás Maduro has to sleep with one eye open, writes maryanastasiaOG.
Venezuelan interim President Juan Guaidó took a big gamble last Tuesday when he stood outside La Carlota air base in Caracas at dawn and called on the military to drop its allegiance to dictator Nicolás Maduro.
The call to action provoked street demonstrations across the country, but the plan fizzled. While there were some notable defections among the secret police, the army and the National Guard, Mr. Guaidó admitted on Wednesday that the armed-forces uprising that he had expected did not materialize. By the end of the week...
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