Can Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez become a Latin American Deng Xiaoping?
Maduro’s Sorbonne-educated successor is talking up an era of ‘reform and opening up’ modelled on China’s post-Mao boomAfter years of political and social upheaval, hunger and despair, the Great Helmsman departs and is replaced by a francophile economic reformer who catapults a traumatised...
<p>Maduro’s Sorbonne-educated successor is talking up an era of ‘reform and opening up’ modelled on China’s post-Mao boom</p><p>After years of political and social upheaval, hunger and despair, the Great Helmsman departs and is replaced by a francophile economic reformer who catapults a traumatised country into a new era of prosperity and growth<em>.</em></p><p>That is what happened in China half a century ago when <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/prof_dengxiaoping.html">the croissant-loving communist</a> Deng Xiaoping became paramount leader after Chairman Mao Zedong’s 1976 death and set in motion one of history’s biggest economic booms.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/28/can-venezuelas-delcy-rodriguez-become-a-latin-american-deng-xiaoping">Continue reading...</a>
Read the full article at:
The Guardian World →