Vijay Prashad, Independent Media Institute, January 17, 2019.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro addresses international observers at the presidential palace in Caracas. (AP)
Last Thursday—on January 10—Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for his second term as president of Venezuela. “I tell the people,” Maduro said, “this presidential sash is yours. The power of this sash is yours. It does not belong to the oligarchy or to imperialism. It belongs to the sovereign people of Venezuela.”
These two terms—oligarchy and imperialism—define the problems faced by Maduro’s new government.
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