April 23, 2019

A protest sign stuck in the window of a four-story brick-front building in Georgetown faces the street: “This embassy belongs to the elected government of Venezuela.”

But exactly which government is that?

Nicolás Maduro and Juan Guaidó — the two men who are claiming the presidency back home in their troubled South American nation — are now engaged in a full-blown global power struggle to control Venezuela’s diplomatic posts. From Washington to Berlin, Vienna to Panama City, their competing bids for legitimacy have set up an international tug of war between rival diplomatic corps claiming to be the rightful possessors of Venezuela’s foreign embassies, consulates, accreditation and access.

Read more:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/maduro-vs-guaido-venezuelas-dueling-diplomatic-corps-in-tug-of-war-for-embassies-access/2019/04/23/61f0aade-65c9-11e9-a698-2a8f808c9cfb_story.html?utm_term=.f28ee061e392