Global outcry after US launches strikes on Venezuela and captures president

Dr Carlos Solar, a senior research fellow on Latin America for the Rusi thinktank, said it was unclear whether the attack would lead to regime change in Venezuela. He said: “The regime doesn’t have Maduro, but the regime is proving to be alive. You have the vice-president, you have some other civilians who were part of the Maduro entourage. “If you go back to when Hugo Chávez died, Maduro replaced him, and ‘Chávismo’ didn’t die. He just turned into Maduro and it was kept for another decade and a half. So Maduro will be gone, but we might have a new movement taking force in Venezuela which might succeed him, depending on what the US does next.”