Venezuela’s last democratically elected instance was sentenced to death with the recent parliamentary elections. These elections, defined from the Miraflores palace, mark the end of a series of uninterrupted attacks against the opposition’s biggest political victory in two decades.

In order to understand the political context of the 2020 election, it is necessary to examine the dictatorial turn of the Nicolás Maduro regime after the defeat of Chavism in the 2015 legislative elections.