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Is Chavismo dead? What US presence in Venezuela means for the socialist movement.

The Christian Science Monitor·The Christian Science Monitor·21 days ago
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Rosa Albina García still remembers the first time she saw Venezuela’s former President Hugo Chávez. It was in her low-income neighborhood high in the hills of Caracas, where as a presidential candidate he was greeting store owners and neighbors on the street. “No other president had ever come this high,” she says of the man whose work she credits with changing the course of her life. Ms. García learned to read and write through Chávez-era social programs known as misiones , aimed at bringing education, food, and housing to Venezuelans long excluded from the oil-rich nation’s wealth. She later secured her first formal job. Why We Wrote This Venezuela’s socialist revolution was built on a number of principles – including anti-imperialism. What does interim President Delcy Rodríguez’s cozying up to the U.S. mean for the future of the Chavismo movement? For her daughter, Neudin Barreto, those programs created the kinds of opportunities her mother never had.…

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