Hello and welcome to The Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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

This week, as the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein headed to court to face charges of sexual assault in New York, more charges were filed in Los Angeles.

Allegations against him sparked the Me Too movement. We ask how it's playing out.

And there's a conspiracy theory floating around Sudan, that the deep state is working to discredit the fragile new democracy

by clogging the roads with vehicles.

Traffic is appallingly bad,

but the reasons for that are probably simple economics.

First up, though.

Today, Venezuela's National Assembly will meet,

but after a chaotic weekend,

it seems the country's only democratically elected institution has two leaders,

and it's not at all clear which will be in charge.

One of them, Juan Guaido, has been in place for a year. He had been widely viewed as the most

credible challenger to Nicolas Maduro, the country's de facto dictator. The other, Luis

Parra, appears to have been hand-picked by Mr. Maduro's regime.

Juan Guaido emerged international prominence in January of 2019

when he claimed himself the acting president of Venezuela.

Brooke Unger is our Americas editor.

The reason that he did that is because the guy with the actual powers of the president of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro,

had got himself re-elected in a rigged election the previous May.

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