From political beginnings to questioned presidencies: Nicolás Maduro’s years in power, in photos

(From left to right) The president of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Lucia, Claudius Francis; the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega; the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Denzil Douglas; the president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel; the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Gastón Browne; the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro; the Prime Minister of the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves; the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce; the Minister of Economic Development, Planning, Tourism and ICT, Creative Economy, Agriculture and Land, Fisheries and Cooperatives of Grenada, Lennox Andrews; and the Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, greet during the official image of the XXIV ALBA-TCP Summit in Caracas on December 14, 2024. Juan BARRETO /AFP via Getty Images