Venezuelan Government To Independently Resolve Problems Facing Country - Maduro

Venezuelan Government to Independently Resolve Problems Facing Country - Maduro

The Venezuelan government will independently deal with the problems that the Latin American country is currently facing, in accordance with the principle of self-determination, President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday

MEXICO CITY (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 25th February, 2019) The Venezuelan government will independently deal with the problems that the Latin American country is currently facing, in accordance with the principle of self-determination, President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday.

"The empire of evil [the United States] and its servants should know that [the principle of] self-determination reigns in Venezuela. We will resolve the problems in the national union together with the Bolivarian government, which I am heading," Maduro wrote on Twitter.

Venezuela is currently going through a political crisis. On January 5, lawmaker Juan Guaido was elected as the president of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, which all other government branches have been refusing to recognize since 2016.

On January 23, two days after the Venezuelan Supreme Court annulled his election, Guaido declared himself the country's "interim president." Maduro, who was sworn in for his second presidential term on January 10 after winning the May election, which part of the opposition boycotted, qualified Guaido's move as an attempt to stage a coup orchestrated by Washington.

The United States immediately recognized Guaido, after which some 50 other countries followed suit. Russia, China, Cuba, Bolivia and a number of other states have, in the meantime, voiced their support for the legitimate government of Maduro. Mexico and Uruguay have refused to recognize Guaido, declaring themselves neutral and promoting crisis settlement via dialogue.