‘It’s utter surrealism’: Venezuela’s Chavistas lament government’s embrace of Trump

‘It’s utter surrealism’: Venezuela’s Chavistas lament government’s embrace of Trump

Diehard Hugo Chávez supporters struggle to comprehend ideological U-turn being executed by Delcy Rodríguez’s interim administration He was one of the most passionate propagandists for Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian revolution: a feisty leftist TV personality who spent more than two decades singing the movement’s praises on his state-funded show, The Razorblade.

Mario Silva’s devotion was such that he often hosted his programme with Chávez’s portrait behind him and he had El Comandante’s curly signature tattooed on to his left wrist. Continue reading...

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