When Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez died of cancer earlier this year, the fate of the Western hemisphere’s most brazen political experiment looked grim. For the better part of a generation, this country of 29 million had known no other leader and clung to El Comandante’s vision even as law and order crumbled and the oil-rich economy spun into disarray.
When Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez died of cancer earlier this year, the fate of the Western hemisphere’s most brazen political experiment looked grim. For the better part of a generation, this country of 29 million had known no other leader and clung to El Comandante’s vision even as law and order crumbled and the oil-rich economy spun into disarray.
When Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez died of cancer earlier this year, the fate of the Western hemisphere’s most brazen political experiment looked grim. For the better part of a generation, this country of 29 million had known no other leader and clung to El Comandante’s vision even as law and order crumbled and the oil-rich economy spun into disarray.
