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Related: About this forum'Chavismo' Fades As Venezuela's Poor Suffer
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/17/695536858/chavismo-fades-as-venezuela-s-poor-sufferVenezuela's poor were the beneficiaries of Chavez's Bolivarian socialist revolution. But 20 years later, they have little food and medicine and few jobs, eroding support for President Maduro.
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'Chavismo' Fades As Venezuela's Poor Suffer (Original Post)
Bacchus4.0
Feb 2020
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Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)1. But the glorious workers' paradise...where did it go?
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)2. Just need another charismatic corrupt leader and an oil boom
since there already plenty of gullible people to manipulate.
dware
(17,879 posts)3. Why anyone still supports this dictator, Maduro,
is beyond me, especially on DU.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)4. Lots of love for Hugo so better not to talk
About his handpicked successor Maduro and the Venezuela catastrophe
