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Weekly Report - 16 January 2025 (WR-25-02)

Maduro’s inauguration leaves opposition facing bleak future

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a third six-year term on 10 January. He goes into this new phase of his presidency in diplomatic isolation, but with his dominance in little question. The political opposition, whose candidate Edmundo González is widely believed to have won the July 2024 election, claimed until the eleventh hour that Maduro’s inauguration could be prevented. That, however, would have depended on coordinated dissent within the military, of which there has been no sign. Meanwhile, protests against the alleged electoral fraud have been crushed. The opposition will have been disappointed with the turnout for 9 January demonstrations aimed at inspiring a military rebellion, at which the authorities’ intimidatory tactics were on full display.

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