Are These The Last Days For Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

Peter Wilson, Foreign Policy: The Last Days of Nicolas Maduro

Venezuela faces a slow-moving economic disaster that could spell political doom for the embattled president.

CARACAS — On Feb. 14, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro warned his countrymen that the economic crisis they’ve been suffering through for months could last through 2017. He spoke not long after the supreme court approved his declaration of economic emergency, justifying his need for special powers.

What many doubt, however, is whether Maduro himself will be in power to witness an economic turnaround, as the pressures mount for him to step down or be pushed aside. “Maduro is facing a crisis encompassing economic, political, social and cultural factors,” said Caracas-based political analyst Dimitris Pantoulas. “It’s a perfect storm.”

And the president seems at a loss. A former bus driver who rose to become the country’s foreign minister and then vice president before succeeding the late Hugo Chávez in 2013, Maduro is beset by infighting within his own cabinet and divisions within his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) that have left him scrambling to survive politically.

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WNU Editor: I do not see him leaving any-time soon. Venezuela is a country that is facing an economic/political/social crisis of the  worst magnitude .... and President Nicolas Maduro is lost on how to confront it. But he still has a lot of supporters .... a legacy of Hugo Chavez .... and he has the support of the military. As long as this base supports support him, he will stay in power until his term ends years from now.