Venezuela's 'Chavismo' risks implosion, dissident faction warns
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/08/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKCN0HX1GC20141008
(Reuters) - The socialist movement built by Venezuela's former president Hugo Chavez risks imploding if corruption, inefficiency and an economic crisis are not tamed, a dissenting faction of the ruling Socialist Party says.
"The revolutionary process is in danger, it's falling apart," warned Gonzalo Gomez Freire, a leader of Marea Socialista, or "Socialist Tide", a small but vocal group of leftist intellectuals critical of President Nicolas Maduro's government.
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But he is now under intense pressure with an economy in recession, shortages of basic goods and medicines, annual inflation above 60 percent and sky-high crime.
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The Marea Socialista group relentlessly chides Maduro's government for enrichment of senior officials, top-heavy decision-making and what it sees as the abandonment of revolutionary purity.