Heeding ‘friendly’ advice to act like a statesman, President Nicolás Maduro has extended a conciliatory hand to the ‘delirious Left’, inviting their input into his newly announced ‘sacudón’ – or shake-up – of the government. While Maduro is playing good cop, Diosdado Cabello, the president of the national assembly and effective leader of the ruling Partido Unido Socialista de Venezuela (PSUV), continues to play bad cop ahead of the party’s national congress, warning in no uncertain terms that malcontents can simply pack up their bags and leave. So the message from the top is simultaneously ‘rectification’ and ‘row in behind your man’.End of preview - This article contains approximately 610 words.
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