As Maduro appears in New York court, Venezuela's state apparatus 'remains in place'

François Picard is pleased to welcome Christopher Sabatini, Senior Research Fellow for Latin America, the US and the Americas program at Chatham House. According to Sabatini, the removal of a head of state like Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro through external force may appear, at first glance, as a decisive rupture. Yet what unfolds beneath the surface reveals continuity rather than transformation. The structures of power, the networks of coercion and the embedded systems of corruption do not dissolve with the extraction of a single leader.

Mar 28, 2026 - 07:00
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As Maduro appears in New York court, Venezuela's state apparatus 'remains in place'
François Picard is pleased to welcome Christopher Sabatini, Senior Research Fellow for Latin America, the US and the Americas program at Chatham House. According to Sabatini, the removal of a head of state like Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro through external force may appear, at first glance, as a decisive rupture. Yet what unfolds beneath the surface reveals continuity rather than transformation. The structures of power, the networks of coercion and the embedded systems of corruption do not dissolve with the extraction of a single leader.

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