A Pyrrhic Victory? The Bolivarianism and the Civil Society in Venezuela after Chavez

The election of Nicolas Maduro as the first president after the death of Hugo Chavez has unveiled new challenges to the Bolivarian cause. The first challenge Maduro is to renew the Bolivarian leadership style and show himself as capable of being the translator of the general will of Venezuelans. Secondly, he necessarily has to bring effective changes in the economy in order to cool down the current social anxieties principally among the poor population. The poor, who have historically been on the side of the Bolivarian cause, sent a strong message that they might be potentially migrating to the opposition camp. The third-and more complex-task is that Maduro will have to include the country's elite to the political debate and contemplate part of its demands regarding how the democratic game should be, in order to be able to implement all these changes.

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Democracy ； Venezuela ； Chavism ； Bolivarianism

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