Title: How the Venezuela crisis escalated Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36319877 Summary: President Nicolás Maduro's government and the opposition in Venezuela are locked in a fierce power battle. For years, the country has been facing rising political unrest fueled by spiraling hyperinflation, power outages, and food and medication shortages. This has resulted in more than 5.6 million Venezuelans leaving the country in recent years. Nicolás Maduro is considered the legitimate president by certain countries, while Juan Guaidó is supported by others. Maduro, predictably, did not take it kindly and denounced it as a plot by the US to depose him and declared that he was and would stay the legitimate president