Venezuela’s politics are a mess. And now there’s a birther movement.

They have organized old-fashioned shoe-leather protests, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people into the streets to condemn Maduro for the country's economic collapse. They won control of congress, organized a recall referendum movement to try to remove him from office, and accused him of orchestrating a self-coup to stay in power. The latest line of argument: Maduro is not fully Venezuelan, and therefore can't be president.. More…