Venezuela’s People and Its Socialist Regime Lurch Toward a Clash

Opposition declares that its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, has been elected the new president, as statues of Chavez are toppled and Maduro cuts a cake.

AP/Cristian Hernandez
Protesters at the Catia neighborhood of Caracas on July 29, 2024. AP/Cristian Hernandez

President Maduro of Venezuela cut a cake yesterday to celebrate his reelection and the birthday of his political mentor, socialist revolutionary Hugo Chávez Frias. Elsewhere in Venezuela, groups of young people marked 25 years of socialism by pulling down Chávez statues.

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