Guaidó invoked the constitution to assume interim presidency January, arguing that Maduro's 2018 re-election was fraudulent. Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro won six-year term on Sunday, and his main rivals disavowed the election alleging massive irregularities in process critics..…

Apparently, Guaidó had promised the US that if they were to get “the main world leaders to recognise him… at least half of the high ranking officers would defect. ... The other main criticism was regarding the Venezuelan opposition’s appraisal that Maduro’s “social base..…