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Venezuelan President Maduro gestures to military leaders to keep their eyes open following a news conference at the presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

The Venezuelan army’s staunch loyalty to an illegitimate dictator

Isaac Nahon-Serfaty, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Venezuela’s military is an armed political actor with a gun to the head of a society that is urgently demanding a return to democracy.
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was a major financier of Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, seen here at a 2016 commemoration on the third anniversary of the socialist leader’s death. Reuters/Marco Bello

Venezuelan oil fueled the rise and fall of Nicaragua’s Ortega regime

Benjamin Waddell, Fort Lewis College

Cheap Venezuelan oil boosted Nicaragua’s economy and funded President Daniel Ortega’s many anti-poverty programs. With Venezuela in crisis, the oil has dried up – as has support for Ortega’s regime.

Related Topics

  1. Brazil
  2. devaluation
  3. Economy
  4. Hugo Chávez
  5. International Monetary Fund
  6. Juan Guaidó
  7. Latin America
  8. Oil
  9. Venezuela
  10. Zimbabwe

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