Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro attends a ceremony for Staff Day in Caracas, Could 1.
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From “Nicolás Maduro Tries a New PR Marketing campaign: Going Woke” by
Tony Frangie Mawad
for Politico, Could 8:
As Venezuela’s authorities has spun deeper into autocracy, the nation has turn into more and more remoted on the worldwide stage, creating each a humanitarian and reputational disaster for the oil-rich nation. Now, Venezuela’s self-proclaimed radical socialist politics give it a possible various level of connection to youthful folks within the U.S. and elsewhere—one which the Maduro authorities is clearly making an attempt to leverage.
Immediately, when the Venezuelan authorities shares messages on social media and Maduro speaks in public, Venezuelan observers have famous that he more and more depends on progressive language acquainted to younger Western leftists. In distinction to older bellicose speeches loaded with macho (and generally homophobic) imagery, Maduro is now co-opting the language of “feminism, LGBTI rights, the setting,” says
Rafael Uzcátegui,
the final coordinator of PROVEA, Venezuela’s most prestigious and oldest human rights group.
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Appeared within the Could 9, 2022, print version as ‘Notable & Quotable: Maduro.’
