"It erases all the doubts about his leadership," said AS/COA's Guillermo Zubillaga to The Guardian on Guaidó's meeting with President Donald Trump.

"[Opposition leaders] have got to force the Maduro regime to react to them, instead of vice versa," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to The New York Times.

"Governments throughout the Americas and Europe must begin a coordinated effort to identify and seize assets of corrupt regime officials," writes COA Board Member and Scotiabank President and CEO Brian J. Porter in the National Post.

"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.