Chavistas Struggle with Rodríguez's Ideological U-Turn — SkimNews
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- Delcy Rodríguez's interim administration is executing an ideological U-turn that diehard Hugo Chávez supporters are struggling to comprehend.
- One such loyalist — a feisty leftist TV personality who spent more than two decades as a passionate propagandist for Chávez's Bolivarian revolution — epitomizes the bewilderment ro Chavismo's rank-and-file.
Why it matters: When the most committed ideological foot soldiers of a 25-year-old movement publicly cannot explain its new direction, the rupture goes beyond policy — it signals a crisis of identity within Chavismo itself, with Rodríguez's interim government now governing against the worldview of its own base during a delicate political transition in Venezuela.
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