Venezuela’s opposition cried victory on Thursday after a London judge ruled that the British government had “unequivocally recognised” opposition leader Juan Guaido as the troubled Latin American country’s president. The ruling came in a dispute over $1 billion in gold reserves that Venezuela’s central bank wants released from the Bank of England to help fund the country’s response to the coronavirus crisis. The Bank of England said it was unable to act on the instructions because it was “caught in the middle” of competing claims for the presidency after disputed elections in 2018.
