Ex-bus driver is heir to Hugo’s Venezuela
7 March 2013 5:51 AM IST
Nicolas Maduro, the hand-picked successor to Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, will now have to fill the void left by the larger-than-life leftist firebrand he loyally served for more than a decade.
Maduro began adopting the role even before Chavez's death, calling an opposition leader the ‘prince of the parasitic bourgeoisie,’ and giving rambling speeches on state-run television capped with ‘Viva la revolucion!’
‘We swear that no little bourgeois will ever screw the people again,’ Maduro last week. He has also denounced the ‘decadent’ opposition and the US ‘empire.’
Maduro began adopting the role even before Chavez's death, calling an opposition leader the ‘prince of the parasitic bourgeoisie,’ and giving rambling speeches on state-run television capped with ‘Viva la revolucion!’
‘We swear that no little bourgeois will ever screw the people again,’ Maduro last week. He has also denounced the ‘decadent’ opposition and the US ‘empire.’
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