{"id":11157,"date":"2021-11-24T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?p=11157"},"modified":"2021-11-24T15:53:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T20:53:42","slug":"focus-on-pariah-leaders-nicolas-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/11\/24\/focus-on-pariah-leaders-nicolas-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"FOCUS on Pariah Leaders: Nicol\u00e1s Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Madeline Field<br \/>\n<\/b><b><i>Staff Writer<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the simultaneously reviled and celebrated socialist President of Venezuela, is facing another contested vote in November\u2019s upcoming regional elections, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/10\/13\/europe\/eu-us-tensions-venezuela-election-intl-cmd\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CNN<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The rise and fall of Maduro\u2019s political legitimacy parallel that of other populist leaders in Latin America, but recent events indicate that Maduro may finally achieve the legitimacy he desires.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Nicolas-Maduro\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Encyclopedia Britannica,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was born in 1962 to a politically oriented, left-leaning middle-class family in Caracas. Maduro made a name for himself as a union representative for transit workers and became close with former dictator Hugo Chavez while campaigning for the leader\u2019s release from prison in 1994. Maduro rose to prominence in Chavez\u2019s United Socialist Party of Venezuela and was eventually sworn in as vice president in 2012 amid Chavez\u2019s well-publicized battle with cancer. Following his mentor\u2019s death in 2013, Maduro became the new figurehead of the country\u2019s socialist movement and narrowly won his first term as president in an election <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-36319877\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BBC News\u00a0<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reports was shadowed by a decades-long economic crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maduro\u2019s election to his first presidential term was largely thanks to his populist movement that appealed to ordinary Venezuelans&#8217; fears. Yet his relationship with the middle and lower class soured quickly, and middle-class citizens took to the streets in protest in 2014. In a move that has played out countless times in dictatorial regimes around the globe, Maduro used the military, police, and judicial systems to crack down on recall and opposition efforts. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-venezuela-politics-timeline\/how-venezuela-got-here-a-timeline-of-the-political-crisis-idUSKCN1PN05S\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reuters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reports that this move only worsened political turmoil during his first six-year term, culminating in unsuccessful anti-government protests that left more than 100 dead in 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maduro has faced heightened criticism from world leaders in the past three years due to reports that he rigged the 2018 presidential election. According to BBC News, Maduro\u2019s reelection was marred by evidence of vote-buying and unjust imprisonment of opposition leaders who attempted to run for office. Maduro\u2019s crackdown on ordinary Venezuelans was so severe that it is the subject of a recent probe by the International Criminal Court into alleged crimes against humanity. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-11-03\/international-court-to-open-venezuela-probe-in-blow-to-maduro\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bloomberg<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> writes that local human rights organizations characterized the use of government security forces to shut down street demonstrations and imprison opponents as brutal\u2014Maduro has since defended the crackdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opposition groups, many of whom staged symbolic boycotts of the election, enabled Maduro\u2019s easy reelection victory. However, in another twist in Venezuela\u2019s chaotic political system, opposition leader Juan Guaid\u00f3 declared himself Venezuela\u2019s rightful president at a rally two weeks later. While Guaid\u00f3\u2019s claims of legitimacy are largely baseless, considering did not run in the disputed election, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/energy\/why-maduros-rival-now-wants-to-talk-to-not-topple-him\/2021\/06\/06\/20ef076a-c684-11eb-89a4-b7ae22aa193e_story.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reports that the United States and 50 other countries recognized Guaid\u00f3 as Venezuela\u2019s legitimate leader in an attempt to counter Maduro.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite years of brutal rule, Maduro\u2019s long-standing status as Latin America\u2019s political pariah may soon be lifted. Persistent efforts to remove Maduro from office have proven unsuccessful and faltered, including an assassination attempt and actions by the international coalition promoting Guaid\u00f3 as Venezuela\u2019s president. The U.S. government under President Joe Biden has thus far maintained its support for Guaid\u00f3 and its commitment to enforcing an oil embargo and sanctions against the country. Russia and China, meanwhile, have long upheld Maduro\u2019s presidency and recently helped him secure vaccinations and humanitarian aid in violation of U.S. sanctions. In another political win for Maduro, CNN reports that the European Union has agreed to send an electoral monitoring team to Venezuela for November\u2019s regional elections, a development the U.S. fears will legitimize Maduro upon his party\u2019s inevitable victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maduro may soon achieve the political validation he has long sought due to opposition fatigue among world leaders, many of whom are finding it increasingly difficult to justify sanctions in the face of Venezuela\u2019s overwhelming humanitarian and refugee crisis. However, this does not change the fact that Venezuelans originally elected Maduro with false hopes that he, a once-prominent advocate for workers\u2019 rights, would ease burdens for the everyday laborer. Maduro\u2019s crushing grip on power is a sobering reminder of the implications of electing populist leaders with no respect for democratic institutions\u2014and the inability of even the world\u2019s most powerful leaders to do anything about it. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the simultaneously reviled and celebrated socialist President of Venezuela, is facing another contested vote in November\u2019s upcoming regional elections, according to CNN. The rise and fall of Maduro\u2019s political legitimacy parallel that of other populist leaders in Latin America, but recent events indicate that Maduro may finally achieve the legitimacy he desires.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5032,"featured_media":11136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2282,2283,5,384],"tags":[477,479,893,924,2285],"class_list":["post-11157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-november-2021","category-global-pariahs","category-focus","category-americas","tag-venezuela","tag-maduro","tag-election","tag-south-america","tag-dictator"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FOCUS on Pariah Leaders: Nicol\u00e1s Maduro - The Diplomatic Envoy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2021\/11\/24\/focus-on-pariah-leaders-nicolas-maduro\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FOCUS on Pariah Leaders: Nicol\u00e1s Maduro - The Diplomatic Envoy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the simultaneously reviled and celebrated socialist President of Venezuela, is facing another contested vote in November\u2019s upcoming regional elections, according to CNN. 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