"As US military assets accumulate in the Caribbean and diplomatic pressure on the Nicolás Maduro regime intensifies, two starkly different visions of Venezuela’s future dominate policy discussions. The first envisions a seamless democratic transition: Maduro steps down, Edmundo González assumes the presidency he won in July 2024, and Venezuela rejoins the community of democratic nations. The second invokes the specter of Libya — a collapsed state fractured by civil war, with armed factions competing for territory and plunging the country into chaos worse than autocratic stability".

Journal of Democracy

How Venezuela Actually Becomes a Democracy | Journal of Democracy

The South American country may be on the verge of real change. But it isn’t going to descend into civil-war chaos like Libya. It will be difficul...