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...Hugo Chávez is the nightmare of Colombia’s oligarchs!”...
...“If the government keeps acting as it has been after the December 6 election,” warned John Magdaleno, who heads Polity, a Caracas consultancy, “it will precipitate a political crisis of magnitude.”...
...“Maduro is trying, but he is not Chávez,” says socialist party supporter Jesús Rodríguez, a reference to the late Hugo Chávez, Mr Maduro’s charismatic predecessor who won legitimacy with serial electoral...
...John Magdaleno of Polity, a Caracas consultancy, says the arrest “lowers the volume of the devaluation”....
...“The destiny of María Gabriela Chávez is part of a bigger plan of balancing the chavista factions within the government,” says John Magdaleno, director of Polity, a Caracas-based consultancy....
...“Everyone knows the president’s health is delicate, so his setting up the Council of State now cannot be good news,” John Magdaleno, a political scientist in Caracas, told Agence France Presse....
...“The result will act as a thermometer reading for Chávez to see whether he can go ahead and attempt another constitutional reform on presidential term limits,” said Michael Penfold-Becerra, a political analyst...
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