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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