President Nicolas Maduro together with Socialist Party Vice-President Diosdado Cabello (R) next to a portrait of Hugo Chávez. (Jorge Silva / Reuters)
Tom Phillips, The Guardian: 'A slow-motion catastrophe': on the road in Venezuela, 20 years after Chávez's rise
The Guardian travels across the nation the late Hugo Chávez dreamed of transforming, to understand its collapse
The latrines at Simón Bolívar international airport in Caracas overflow with urine; the taps are bone dry. In the departures hall, weeping passengers prepare for exile, unsure when they will return.
At customs, a sticker on one x-ray machine warns: “Here you don’t speak badly about Chávez!”
But even before stepping outside the terminal it is obvious his Bolivarian revolution, like the airport’s immobile escalators, has ground to a halt.
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WNU Editor: This blog has posted enough stories and updates on what has (and is) happening in Venezuela. But the sad part that the above article does not disclose is that most Venezuelans still support Chavismo .... Venezuelan elections: 'People still believe in Chavismo but don't support Maduro' (Euronews).
