Cracks have been showing in Maduro's regime of Venezuela for a long time now. And the cracks seem to have deepened when aid from neighbouring country Colombia was rejected last month. People have started taking to streets under the leadership of self-proclaimed interim president Juan Gauido. With intermittent power outages the situation seems to growing dire for the average Venezuelan with very limited access to food and medicine. Even drinking water is short in supply with people turning to drains for water.
Under the military supported Maduro regime, not only are people losing weight (no less than 12 kilos as of on 2017) due to food shortage and lack of healthcare, but, babies on life-support are dying due to power outages. 60 per cent of the population is living below poverty. Understandably, this is making the people angry and helpless. As a result, more than 3 million Venezuelans have relocated to neighbouring countries like Colombia over the last year or so. Even as President Trump said that military intervention may be the only way out to solve the logjam, Russia went ahead and sent in 100 troops to its ally and two jets worth of military equipment.
Chief sub editor and in house expert on international politics Ajish P Joy talks about what is next for the country and why an immediate solution is not to be seen.