Occupation of Venezuela (2020 Crisis)

The Occupation of Venezuela is the period between June 06, 2020 and March 15, 2023, in which Venezuela remained on joint military occupation between Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru and Chile, beginning with the Joint Declaration on the Occupation of Venezuela (Declaration of Brazilia), which extinguished the Venezuelan state, creating the Supreme Council of Occupation, establishing the state of occupation, and suspending Venezuelan sovereignty. The creation of the Venezuelan occupation was a very controversial subject, both in Venezuela and in the nations that occupied it, but was analyzed as necessary to pacify the country and guarantee a transition to a democracy, after a serious crisis in the country, an authoritarian government, a short civil war and the prospect that no transitional national government would be effective in the highly polarized scenario in which the country lived. During the Occupation, the Supreme Council of Occupation called on several Brazilian technicians and economists and of other South American countries to restructure the Venezuelan economy and to contain the hyperinflation. After three steps of reconstruction, divided into economic plans, Venezuela managed to control inflation with the Turpial Plan, linking the new currency, the trupial, to the Brazilian teal, and guaranteeing the economic reconstruction, besides realizing a great economic liberalization. Despite punctual repression and occupation, the Occupation guaranteed the return of democracy, with the reorganization of the party system, the election of the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly of 2021 - 2022 in April 2021, the promulgation of a new constitution in 2022, and the election of the president Juan Guaidó in November 2022, inaugurated on March 15, 2023, at which time the Occupation was formally closed, and the Venezuelan State was formally reestablished, with a new constitution, parliament and president. The Occupation of Venezuela remains controversial to this day. Most Venezuelans see the Occupation as positive, for it has restructured the economy and redeployed democracy, while others see it as an imperial occupation, especially by Brazil, which largely influenced the modern Venezuelan state, which has an official name (Federal Republic of Venezuela), constituion and laws (many of the time of the Occupation), influenced by Brazil, as well as the teaching of Portuguese in the schools and market economy influenced by Brazilian neoliberal economists of the time of the government of the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro.