(10 Jan 2019) Venezuelan residents on Thursday reacted to President Nicolas Maduro being sworn in to a second term, amid international calls for him to step down and a devastating economic crisis.
While Maduro's popularity has plunged amid scarcities, hyperinflation and rising authoritarianism that have sparked a mass emigration, supporters who receive government subsidies in shantytowns continue to back the man who took over for the late Hugo Chavez.
Several-hundred supporters rallied outside of the Supreme Court waving flags and cheering.
Supporter Luis Isturiz said that contrary to what critics say, Venezuela is now more democratic than ever before.
Maduro's second term will extend Venezuela's socialist revolution amid widespread complaints that he has stripped Venezuela of its last vestiges of democracy.
A dozen Latin American governments and Canada in a coalition have rejected the legitimacy of Maduro's next term, and Washington has sanctioned top officials in his government.
Maduro denies that he's a dictator and often blames US President Donald Trump of leading an economic war against Venezuela that's destroying the country.

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