He kicked the bucket a long time ago. They just couldn’t figure out how to admit it, or when. There were big riots yesterday in VZ, and I guess they finally figured they couldn’t stall any longer.
This calls into question the legitimacy of the current government, and the Venezuelans are definitely going to challenge it. They don’t have any other charismatic dictators backed up, although, like Fidel, Hugo has left a brother behind him (who was supposedly the radical leftist brains behind the Chavez operation, although not somebody who could have garnered any support on his own).
You better believe it!