From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is out this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

For the past week and a half, following the chaos in Venezuela has required double vision.

Venezuela's military leaders pledged their support to President Nicolas Maduro today,

a day after the U.S.

recognized 35-year-old opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's interim president.

There is the authoritarian socialist Maduro, recently re-elected in a dubious vote and trying to cling

to power, and there is the opposition leader Guido, the head of the National

Assembly, who's used an obscure article of the Venezuelan Constitution also to claim

the presidency on the grounds of Maduro's illegitimacy. At least a dozen foreign governments

support him. Guido maintains that the Constitution allows him to assume power,

since the opposition considers Maduro's second mandate illegitimate.

Protesters pouring into the streets aimed at forcing President Nicholas Maduro to step down.

New sanctions will be targeted at Venezuela's oil industry.

Donald Trump says no option is off the table, including a military one.

In a country with a collapsed economy, hyperinflation, flagrant human rights abuses,

institutional dysfunction and widespread starvation, the political crisis has added a bizarre twist of uncertainty and danger.

And the nation's depleted press corps is at pains to figure it all out.

Mariana Zuniga is a freelance journalist based in Caracas, and she says it's exhausting

to cover two presidents at once.

It's running all the time.

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