2024-07-27 23:25:27
Nicolás Maduro’s public self-image is varied and surprising. Sometimes he emphasized his religious affiliation and commitment to “God” who said, protect him from heaven. In others, his former status as “worker” stands out, a forced re-writing of the past: he is briefly a bus driver, although he is also – he often points out, proudly – a career musician and a stoned dancer. . He also claims to be the “son” of Hugo Chávez, “Bolivarian” and “socialist”.
Maduro was born in Caracas on November 23, 1962. State television has just broadcast a documentary that retraces his political origins. Nicolás recounts his time in the rock band Enigma, his decision to leave baseball to devote himself to change, with a scholarship to study in Cuba, his work as a therapist for journalist and future vice president José Vicente Rangel and his beginnings in business. unionism The defeat of Colonel Hugo Chávez on the national scene, in 1992, was a watershed for him.
Chavista times
Chavismo won in 1998 and the bus driver was already elected to the National Assembly that drew up the current Magna Carta. Then he was part of the National Assembly. Between 2006 and 2013, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs, a position that showed the confidence that Chavez had in him, who appointed him as his successor.
His death led him to occupy the center of a field that was already showing signs of schism. In April 2013, he beat Henrique Capriles Radonski by two points. The victory was never well known. What is there is a clash of dimensions with the opposition received on the streets. The protests were unsuccessful, but the election process was. In 2015, anti-madurism led Parliament. The president responded by declaring the situation an “economic emergency.” Opposition wants to call a recall referendum. The government blocked it. The protest escalated with the saga of deaths on the streets.
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During his worst years in power, Maduro strengthened his ties with Russia, China and Iran. The cost of this method of energy management has its global consequences. In 2019, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights published a major report on executions and other acts of terrorism. When GDP fell by 75% and poverty reached unbearable levels, there was no shortage of predictions of an immediate and apocalyptic end, but it was certain that he would remain in office until 2030.
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