‘It’s utter surrealism’: Venezuela’s Chavistas lament government’s embrace of Trump

<p>Diehard Hugo Chávez supporters struggle to comprehend ideological U-turn being executed by Delcy Rodríguez’s interim administration</p><p>He was one of the most passionate propagandists for Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian revolution: a feisty leftist TV personality who spent more than two decades singing the movement’s praises on his state-funded show, The Razorblade.</p><p>Mario Silva’s devotion was such that he often hosted his programme with Chávez’s portrait behind him and he had El Comandante’s curly signature tattooed on to his left wrist.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/01/venezuela-hugo-chavez-supporters-critical-delcy-rodriguez-embrace-of-trump">Continue reading...</a>