"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". https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/how-venezuela-actually-becomes-a-democracy/#author1