Con Chávez y Maduro posts
Washington Post World “Maduro is not the man that Chávez thought he would be.”
105 months ago
The Wall Street Journal The testimony comes as Mr. Maduro battles a wave of deadly protests against his growing authoritarianism and his handling of Venezuela’s spiraling economic crisis.
106 months ago
The New York Times From The New York Times Opinion Section: "President Nicolás Maduro’s government went from autocracy to dictatorship in just a few weeks. Today, it’s only a step away from tyranny. But the people aren’t giving up."
Opinion | Chaos Looms Over Venezuela
nytimes.com
Lacking the leadership skills of Mr. Chávez or the unconditional support of his own followers, Mr. Maduro has given more and more power to the military.
107 months ago
NBC News "We want freedom!" chanted the several hundred protesters, who barricaded roads with burning rubble.
113 months ago
The Economist Hugo Chávez was immensely proud of the constitution he drew up for Venezuela in 1999. He printed it in a little blue book, and handed copies to everyone he met. Now the government of his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, is tearing it up
118 months ago
The Economist The opening of Venezuela's parliament this week had the feel of a velvet revolution. Gone were the portraits of Hugo Chávez and Simón Bolivár. The new head of the National Assembly wants to oust the president, Nicolás Maduro, by constitutional me
Read more ... ans. But can he do so while Maduro's government controls the state's most powerful institutions—including the Supreme Court?
123 months ago
Amaurys Alvarez
124 months ago
The Economist Hugo Chávez was not especially tall. But he was built like one of the tanks he commanded—he seemed indestructible. Yet in 2013, after 14 years of oil-fuelled autocracy, Venezuela's left-wing president died of cancer. His successor, Nicolás Maduro
Read more ... , now faces the first election testing "chavismo" without Chávez
124 months ago
The Daily Beast Is Maduro steering the world’s 13th-largest oil producer straight off a cliff?
Has Venezuelan President Maduro Gone Insane?
thebea.st
His regional warmongering may be a ploy by a desperate politician, but the successor to Hugo Chavez has grown so erratic some are calling him “the South American Hitler.”
126 months ago
The New York Times Even as Venezuela sinks deeper into economic peril, President Nicolás Maduro says that no one will divert him from carrying out the mission that the “eternal Commander Chávez” has given him.
133 months ago
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