"The more Maduro can keep [the opposition] on the back of their feet, the more space he has to implement his own policy preferences," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to Associated Press.

Here are three ways the Maduro government has moved to undercut the opposition-controlled legislature.

The AS/COA's Venezuela Working Group head says many observers have called the January 5 vote for a new National Assembly president a "sham election."

The chaos is part of Nicolás Maduro’s strategy to keep the opposition on its heels and to consolidate power, says the AS/COA vice president in this Q&A.

"De acuerdo con la constitución de Venezuela, es Juan Guaidó quien es el presidente interino del país", dijo el vicepresidente de AS/COA.

The government’s blockade of the National Assembly on Jan. 5 seems to have run counter to its own 2020 election strategy. Can the opposition capitalize?

A leftist icon dies, a country collapses.