Left: Guaidó “declared Venezuela’s authoritarian president an illegitimate ruler,” making himself “the most serious threat to President Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian government,” this New York Times story (12/30/22) reported in its first two paragraphs; Right: The LA Times (1/5/23) described the US recognizing a lawmaker with no constitutional claim to power as the actual government of Venezuela as an “audacious gamble.”