Sky News correspondent Stuart Ramsay says the coming hours and days will be critical in Venezuela to see what the military and security services decide to do.
"I think people will take to the streets very soon and we will have to see then what the reaction of the security services will be. Because obviously this is a massive change, but it doesn't mean that the whole organization... has disappeared," he says.
Ramsay also notes that "the CIA was operating in the country" before adding that the position of the army and the opposition party is "now absolutely crucial" .
Regarding the opposition, he asks: "Can they organize quickly to come to power?"
"The opposition is, in fact, made up of a grouping of real political opponents who... don't get along very well with each other, but somehow they've come together to come together. They need to get organized. They said they're ready to go," says Ramsay.
He notes that there were “rumors” that a deal was in the works for Maduro’s removal from Venezuela and that “there was a feeling that the military would not allow this to happen and that in fact, if it were true that his life could be in danger, it would be done by some of his inner circle.”
"But as things stand now, he is gone. The government, reasonably speaking, is still in place, albeit without its figurehead," he says./ Adapted from Sky News
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