A revolution in ruins: fury amid the rubble of a housing project in quake-hit Venezuela
A housing project in Venezuela, once a symbol of Hugo Chávez's socialist revolution, has been devastated by earthquakes. Residents who were once loyal supporters of the movement are now expressing deep frustration with the current government's inability to manage the disaster and the country's ongoing economic collapse.
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It highlights the erosion of political support for the Maduro regime among its traditional base as humanitarian and economic crises intensify.
Military personnel, search and rescue teams and volunteers work through the rubble of the OPPE 25 housing project In La Guaira. Military personnel, search and rescue teams and volunteers work through the rubble of the OPPE 25 housing project In La Guaira. The Sunday read Venezuela A revolution in ruins: fury amid the rubble of a housing project in quake-hit Venezuela Discontent with Trump-backed government mounts as Chávez heirs struggle to respond to disaster for which they seem ill-prepared
Even before two powerful earthquakes reduced the OPPE 25 government housing project to an anarchy of shattered concrete and broken lives, the foundations of Hugo Chávez’s populist “Bolivarian” revolution were shaking in what was once a hotbed of support.
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