"Shortly after the death of Hugo Chavez in 2013, Nicolas Maduro, who succeeded him as president, went on national television to claim that his late political mentor had reappeared to him as a tiny songbird. Apparently speaking in earnest, the left-wing populist claimed that the ­chirping bird had circled his head several times as he prayed in a chapel, and that the pair then whistled back and forth to each other in conversation."
"As collapsing oil prices and mismanagement ravaged the economy, the weak leader clung to bizarre mythologising Shortly after the death of Hugo Chavez in 2013, Nicolas Maduro, who succeeded him as president, went on national television to claim that his late political mentor had reappeared to him as a tiny songbird. Apparently speaking in earnest, the left-wing populist claimed that the ­chirping bird had circled his head several times as he prayed"
Collapsing oil prices and mismanagement ravaged the economy. The weak leader clung to bizarre mythologising. Shortly after the death of Hugo Chavez in 2013, Nicolas Maduro succeeded him and went on national television to claim that his late political mentor had reappeared as a tiny songbird. Maduro presented the experience as real and intimate. He said the chirping bird circled his head several times while he prayed in a chapel. He added that he and the bird whistled back and forth to each other in conversation. These claims occurred amid a deepening economic crisis and perceptions of political weakness.
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