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 Guaidó, 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 Guaidó emerged the international prominence in January of 2019 when he claimed himself the acting president of Venezuela.

Brook Unger is our America's editor.

The reason he did that is because the guy with the actual powers of the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, had got himself re-elected in a rigged election the previous May.

More than 60 countries agreed and backed Mr. Guaidó, including America.

But that has done a little to loosen Mr. Maduro's grip on power.

It's been a pretty chaotic year.

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