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  • Venezuela, a provisional country Javier Lafuente · María Martín
    There are two pairs of eyes that have shaped the lives of Venezuelans for more than two decades. Symbolic eyes, once adorning building facades, t-shirts, and the city’s staircases. They were the eyes of Hugo Chávez: a gaze designed to suggest authority, surveillance, omnipresence. A gaze that, even after his death in 2013, remained, as if power no longer needed a body, only presence. Seguir leyendo
     
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✇El País in English

Venezuela, a provisional country

By: Javier Lafuente · María Martín
27 April 2026 at 01:31
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There are two pairs of eyes that have shaped the lives of Venezuelans for more than two decades. Symbolic eyes, once adorning building facades, t-shirts, and the city’s staircases. They were the eyes of Hugo Chávez: a gaze designed to suggest authority, surveillance, omnipresence. A gaze that, even after his death in 2013, remained, as if power no longer needed a body, only presence.

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A woman holds a sign of Hugo Chávez at a march organized by Chavismo in Caracas, on April 9.Nancy Peñaloza, the mother of political prisoner José Moreno, protests in front of the Legislative Palace last February.Diners at the Dos Puntos restaurant in Caracas, on April 11.Workers and retirees clash with the Bolivarian National Police in downtown Caracas.A woman gets off a bus in downtown Caracas.A woman watches the sunset on Bolivar Avenue.
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