A quarter century ago, a charismatic former military officer, Hugo Chávez, won Venezuela’s presidency in a landslide, after promising to empower the poor through a more inclusive democracy. And he did, up to a certain point. But his revolution turned into an authoritarian and repressive regime that, as evidence show, just executed an electoral fraud. The World’s Tibisay Zea reports from Caracas, Venezuela, on the people who still back Chavez’s handpick successor, Nicolás Maduro.
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