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International Business Times
International Business Times
Business
Patrick FORT

Venezuela's Maduro: Marxist, Christian, Iron-fisted 'Superhero'

Nicolas Maduro was thrust into power as the handpicked successor of Hugo Chavez (on screen) who died of cancer in 2013 but is still hailed as a revolutionary hero by many (Credit: AFP)

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has been written off many times during a turbulent decade in power. But the former bus driver and anointed heir of Hugo Chavez has stubbornly clung to the wheel.

With neither the charisma nor the flush oil revenues of his late revolutionary mentor, Maduro is accused by rights groups of embracing full-blown authoritarianism to hold on to power.

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