TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 2月7日 09時56分

Two men claim to be the President of #Venezuela, which has the largest oil reserves on the planet and so little food that, in a single year, the average citizen lost 24 pounds. One, Nicolás Maduro, secured a second term in a 2018 election widely regarded as a sham. The other, @jguaido, took an oath of office on Jan. 23, in a maneuver that was equal parts audacious and ingenious, and that offered the nation at least the possibility of a peaceful way out of its catastrophe. The trick was finding a possible opening in the mire of Maduro’s authoritarianism. By fiat and force, #Maduro has spent the last few years remaking the #Caracas government to his liking—replacing justices on the Supreme Court, declaring emergency rule, and sidelining the parliament that the opposition had won in a free and fair ballot in 2015. Maduro also created from whole cloth the electoral apparatus that allowed him to remain in office without facing an opponent—a violation of the country’s 1999 constitution. In response, the leader of parliament—Guaidó, photographed by @andrernandez on Feb. 5—said the presidential office had essentially been left vacant in January, the start of Maduro’s rigged second term. He then invoked the constitution’s Article 233, which, in a power vacuum, calls for the person in his role to temporarily assume the presidency. In the days that followed, most Latin American countries, the U.S. and much of Western Europe recognized #Guaid as the legitimate leader of the most troubled country in the hemisphere, and mounted intense economic and diplomatic pressure on Maduro to step down. In Caracas, massive public demonstrations gathered to support the 35-year-old. By uniting a divided opposition, Guaidó appears to have given Venezuela its first real chance to restore democracy since its socialist experiment collapsed into economic chaos in 2014. “The difference now is there’s absolute hope,” he told TIME a week after the ceremony, his voice hoarse from days of campaigning. “Despair, disillusionment and frustration, have become energy, strength, a determination to fight.” Read more at the link in bio. Photograph by @andrernandez for TIME

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