For more than a dozen years, Hugo Chávez led a
socialist-inspired movement that transformed Venezuela, winning one
presidential election after another with the support of an army of red-shirted
“chavistas.” But four years after Chávez’s death, the movement he founded is
splintering, with current and former government officials, as well as residents
of poor neighborhoods that were once adamantly pro-government, turning on his
successor, Nicolás Maduro. The criticism from Maduro’sformer allies has helped
to energize a protest movement that has drawn demonstrators onto the streets
almost every day for two months. The participants are angry at what they call
Maduro’s increasingly authoritarian rule and a severe economic crisis. Polls
indicate some 80 percent of the population wants him to resign. More…
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