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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was sworn in on Thursday for a second six-year term as head of Venezuela. A second term, however, considered illegitimate by a part of the international community, such as the United States or the Organization of American States.
Nicolas Maduro invested, but increasingly isolated on the international scene. Few foreign heads of state made the trip to attend the ceremony. In his inaugural speech, Nicolas Maduro promised reforms, among other things, to bring about change in a country devastated by an economic and social crisis. A country that is empty of its inhabitants. According to UN projections, more than 5 million Venezuelans will have left the country by the end of the year.
Nicolas Maduro has the difficult task of recovering a plummeting economy while his supporters in the region are fewer and fewer. With the exception of China and Russia, much of the international community has hardened its diplomacy with Caracas, challenging the legitimacy of the new president.
This is the case of the United States, the European Union, the Organization of American States, and several Latin American countries gathered in the Lima Group.
Washington and Brussels have decided to accompany the inauguration of Nicolas Maduro by setting up new sanctions against the president and his relatives. But for most scholars, one should not expect political changes, because the opposition remains divided and the population prefers to flee rather than revolt.