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Andean Group - December 2014 (ISSN 1741-4466)
From Bolívar to Damocles – a Greek tragedy for Maduro?
It is exactly two years since Venezuela’s seriously ill president, Hugo Chávez, anointed his-then foreign minister and vice president Nicolás Maduro as his preferred successor, with the words, “Nicolas, here is the sword of Bolívar”. Chávez shortly thereafter departed for Cuba for another operation for recurrent cancer; he never walked the streets of Caracas again. Twenty-four months later, it is not too much of an exaggeration to say that the sword of Damocles seems to be hanging over Maduro, as he struggles to preserve the Socialist legacy entrusted to him by his mentor.
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