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[44] [45] [46] This action performed by President Maduro made General Padrino one of the most powerful people in Venezuela, possibly "the second most powerful man in Venezuelan politics". [45] [47] The appointment of Padrino was also seen to be similar to the Cuban government's tactic of granting the Cuban military the power to manage Cuba's ...
The process was led by Chávez's own party, the Fifth Republic Movement, and was supported by a range of smaller parties such as the People's Electoral Movement (MEP), Venezuelan Popular Unity (UPV), the Tupamaro Movement, the Socialist League and others [16] which all together added up 45.99% of the votes received by Chávez during the 2006 ...
The Venezuelan human rights organization PROVEA has identified more than 43,000 people whose “right to personal integrity” has been violated since Maduro took office in 2013, including 1,652 people who were tortured, 7,309 people who were subjected to “cruel, inhumane and degrading” treatment or punishment, and at least 28 people who ...
Maduro, it bears repeating, makes no secret of this: He is the leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. Socialists will complain, as they often do , that various socialist governments ...
The self-declared socialist is widely believed to have lost last year's election by a landslide. That sparked criticism by the United States and others that the vote was stolen and forced Maduro to turn to security forces to repress and arrest opponents.
Maduro, who has presided over an economic collapse that has seen millions of people emigrate, and his United Socialist Party of Venezuela have fended off challenges by barring rivals from ...
Under Maduro, socialist economic policies and corruption have caused one of the worst economic and humanitarian crises in the Western Hemisphere in centuries. Annual inflation peaked at 344,509% ...
Maduro's government has accused the United States of organizing a coup d'état to remove him and take control of the country's oil reserves. [26] Guaidó rejects the characterization of his actions as a coup, saying that his movement is backed by peaceful volunteers. [ 27 ]