Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

Today from London, I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

The cartoonist Charles Schultz would have been a hundred this year, but his most famous

creation, the comic strip, peanuts, of course, carries on.

We consider how peanuts serves as a seemingly innocuous window into brutal human nature.

And because it's that time of year, we take a look at a Charlie Brown Christmas.

The first time peanuts characters moved off the page and onto screens.

But we also take a listen.

Once they made that jump, they needed a soundtrack too.

It's up though.

In Venezuela today, it's the end of a kind of parallel universe.

The country's opposition parties voted strongly in favor of elimination of the entire

interim government.

That would put an end to the run of self-appointed interim president Juan Guaidó.

Back in 2019, Nicolas Maduro claimed to have won a general election and was duly sworn

in.

But that election was rigged.

Mr. Maduro pressed ahead, going through the motions of inauguration.

For many in Venezuela and around the world, the opposition leader, Mr. Guaidó, was widely

seen as the country's rightful leader.

Protests abounded.

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