"This article tells us nothing about what Maduro's plan is:"

And nor do you.

Maduro's plan is to further degrade democracy by removing democratically elected opposition members, and install a rubber stamp chamber.

"Maduro has compared these machinations to what happened in the Ukraine in 2014" He's hardly going to put his hand up and say "Yeah, I'm destroying democracy the way I destroyed the economy", is he.

Meanwhile the people are starving, his cronies are looting the treasury, and the country is"progressing" backwards.