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Hugo Chávez

July 2024

  • People line up at polling place in Caracas

    Could Venezuela’s softly-spoken opposition newcomer end 25 years of Chavismo?

    Hopes rise that Edmundo González Urrutia can beat Nicolas Maduro on 28 July and lead the country out of a wretched decade

January 2022

  • Sergio Garrido celebrates after defeating the former foreign minister Jorge Arreaza in the Barinas governorship election

    Venezuelan opposition defeats Maduro candidate in Chávez’s home state

    Regime suffers symbolic blow as little-known Sergio Garrido secures victory in Barinas governorship election

September 2021

  • Gen Hugo Carvajal

    Former Venezuelan spymaster arrested by Madrid police on US drugs charges

    Gen Hugo Carvajal, who had defied a Spanish extradition order and disappeared, was arrested on Thursday night

June 2021

  • Line of migrants use a rope to cross waist-deep border river

    ‘Latin America will never be the same’: Venezuela exodus reaches record levels

    Country at a ‘tipping point’ that could affect region, experts warn, as ‘donor fatigue’ causes aid shortfall

January 2021

  • Two women ride past a mural with an image of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in Sabaneta, Barinas State, Venezuela.

    ¡Populista! review: Chávez, Castro and Latin America's 'pink wave' leaders

    BBC reporter Will Grant has produced an excellent look at the group of strongmen who came from left field

April 2020

  • Chavez picked fights with state governors, the media and multinational organisations, propagated conspiracy theories – and won election after election.

    Bluster, distraction, denial: Trump follows Chavez's successful template

    Coronavirus could be Trump’s downfall – but another bullying leader reminiscent of Trump won election after election

November 2019

  • Venezuela's former military intelligence chief Hugo Armando Carvajal

    Venezuela's former military intelligence chief missing in Spain

    Disappearance follows court’s approval of request to extradite Hugo Armando Carvajal to US

August 2019

  • Tamara Sujú is the executive director of the Casla Institute and a Guaidó supporter.

    Venezuelan activist urges Raab to back ICC Maduro torture case

    Tamara Sujú visits London to seek support for six countries pressing for investigation

April 2019

  • Venezuelan opposition leader Lopez freed from house arrest<br>epa07537795 (FILE) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (rear) speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace of Miraflores, in Caracas, Venezuela, 08 February 2019 (reissued 30 April 2019). Venezuelan interim President Juan Guaido has asked supporters to take to the streets in a video, in order to end the regime of President Nicolas Maduro, while Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was freed from his house arrest, appearing alongside Guaido and military forces in Caracas. EPA/Cristian Hernandez

    Former bus driver Nicolás Maduro clings to wheel in Venezuela

    Lack of charisma and luck have hurt the ‘fumbling showman’ who succeeded Hugo Chávez

March 2019

  • The impact on inequality appears largely driven by leftwing Latin American populist presidents, such as Bolivia’s Evo Morales.

    The new populism
    Revealed: populist leaders linked to reduced inequality

  • Cas Mudde

    The new populism
    To deserve our respect, politicians must drop their populist rhetoric

    Cas Mudde

February 2019

  • Natalia Molina in The Breadmaker documentary

    The Guardian documentary
    The Breadmaker: on the frontline of Venezuela's bakery wars – video

  • Supporters of Nicolás Maduro sing a song about Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chávez during a demonstration in Plaza Bolívar, Caracas.

    ‘Maduro, our amigo’: loyalists in Venezuela cling to their man

  • A member of Faes on patrol during an operation against criminal groups in Caracas last month.

    ‘They are murderers’: special forces unit strikes fear in Venezuelans

  • Protest in support of Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro

    Recognising Juan Guaidó risks a bloody civil war in Venezuela

    Temir Porras Ponceleon

  • Maduro’s fate in the balance as protesters flood streets of Caracas

  • Only Venezuela can solve its problems – meddling by outsiders isn’t the solution

  • Why is Venezuela in crisis? – video explainer

January 2019

  • A member of the Venezuelan armed forces urges people to join an apparent uprising in a screen grab

    Venezuela claims it has foiled attempted military uprising

  • Lucy Worsley in America

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: American History’s Biggest Fibs; Revolution in Ruins; Cold Feet and more

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