1. WHAT’S HAPPENING?

Over last months Venezuela became a topic each of us heard something about. Up to this point, for most of us, Venezuela was a socialist country with a cool sounding name, charismatic western-world-hater president, and highest waterfall in the world. That’s it.

There was always something happening out there, no one knew what exactly but once in a while an international scandal popped out— a typical situation for a proper socialist country. As a guy who was born in the ex-USSR region, I know what I’m talking about.

But recently things got real and Venezuela became an arena for clash of two rivaling ideologies. Decreasing of the living conditions combined with constant progress of the corruption shook the country and people of Venezuela started to protest.

Fearing the growing instability, Nicolas Maduro, who was a legitimate president of Venezuela back in 2017 stated that all opposition parties would be banned from the elections for whatever reason. The real reason is that he wanted to ensure his cabinet, it’s as easy as that.

To make a long story short, all social-democrats gathered around young politician Juan Guaido and now he’s an acting president, recognized by most democratic countries.

At the same time, Maduro declares himself as a still-president so Venezuela appeared to be in the middle of the internal crisis with a classical duality of power.

Now, when we ran through the tutorial, let’s talk about thing much more important and global than ‘Who’s going to win?’.

Spoiler: Social-democrats.The process of disappointment and anger with corrupted, well-fed, and rosy cheek officials is too huge to stop. The system will try to use all its power and resources to survive but it won’t prevail.

The real question here is: