More than two years after the death of
Hugo Chávez—the fiercely loved and despised Venezuelan President, the populist
with a booming voice—the country he left behind remains in disarray. Demonstrations
against his successor, Nicolás Maduro, have been fueled by anger and
frustration over high inflation, violent crime and shortages of basic goods.
That has led the Venezuelan people to question what El Comandante left for
them. Alejandro Cegarra, a 25-year-old photographer who grew up in a relatively
privileged middle-class family, in what he called “a good area” of Caracas, the
capital city of 2.9 million, is among them. In the wake of Chávez’s death, he
began looking at the political, social and economic factors that pushed his
country to its current point. More…
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