Chavismo

Without Hugo Chavez can “chavismo” survive? This was the question that anchor, Marco Werman posed to Moises Naim, a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Miguel Tinker-Salas a professor of Latin American History at Pomona College.

Augusto Montiel, a member of Chavez’s ruling United Socialist Party, is marching with the large crowds that have gathered on the streets to mourn President Hugo Chavez and says emotions are running high.

An ailing Hugo Chávez was a no show for his inauguration Thursday and the uncertainty around the country’s political future is troubling Venezuelans living in the US.