FILE PHOTO - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (C) gestures as he arrives for an event with supporters at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela November 22, 2017. Miraflores Palace/Handout via REUTERS
CARACAS (Reuters) - Just months ago, with crowds of protesters baying on the streets for the resignation of the "dictator" and "murderer," Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro looked like a goner.
Global opinion hardened against his socialist government, with Washington the first to impose sanctions. Coup rumours spread amid one of the worst economic implosions in modern Latin American history, and there were two botched mini-uprisings.
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