Nicolas Maduro is my friend. I feel terribly for him. When he was told by Hugo Chavez, "You know, Nicolas, you have to take over after I'm dead," Nicolas Maduro started crying and saying, "Nobody can take over from you. Please don't put this mantle on me." He's an extremely humble man. He enters politics as a union leader of the bus drivers. He himself was a bus driver. Then he goes off and becomes a politician because Chavez found him in the union movement. Becomes a foreign minister. He is a reluctant politician. And I feel terribly for him as a person. There is nothing in his character that suggests this kind of treatment of him (is deserved). And I really want to say that, because I know that lots of people on the Left will turn their backs on Nicolas Maduro Moro and Cilia Flores and I refuse to do so."
-----Vijay Prashad, BreakThrough News,"Why The U.S. Will Never 'Rule' Venezuela," January 5, 2026
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