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Venezuela has two competing presidents — Juan Guaido and Nicolas Maduro. Neither seems able to fix the mess that the country is in. Will parliamentary elections only make things worse?

Will there be a US military intervention in Venezuela?

We discuss Venezuela with Juan Guaido's UK envoy and ask Iyad el-Baghdadi about a potential threat from Saudi Arabia.

In this week's UpFront, we discuss the political crisis in Venezuela with self-declared president Juan Guaido's envoy to London Vanessa Neumann.

In the Reality Check, we shed light on alternative ways to win the so-called war on drugs.

And in our special interview, Palestinian pro-democracy activist Iyad el-Baghdadi discusses why he thinks he may have been the target of a threat from Saudi Arabia.

El-Baghdadi was placed under protective custody in Norway this month following a CIA tip that his life was in danger from the kingdom.