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🇻🇪 Venezuela
Authoritarian presidential republic in a leadership crisis
SystemAuthoritarian presidential republic in a leadership crisis
Head of stateActing President Delcy Rodríguez · the government still describes Nicolás Maduro, captured in the January 2026 US military intervention, as de jure president
LegislatureNational Assembly · 285 seats, elected in 2025 on a largely boycotted vote
ElectionsElections are held but the 2024 presidential result was widely judged fraudulent · opposition tallies indicated a landslide for Edmundo González
Last election2025-05-25 · parliamentary and regional elections, boycotted by most of the opposition
US forces captured Nicolás Maduro in Caracas on 3 January 2026 and flew him to New York to face drug-trafficking charges, an operation without modern precedent against a sitting government. Vice President Delcy Rodríguez has since exercised the presidency for the chavista state, whose institutions remain in place. The country's long collapse has driven roughly eight million people abroad, and the path to any internationally recognised election remains undefined.
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