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waffle_ss
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Venezuela's Inflation to Reach 1M Percent
Yet things got a lot worse after Chavez's continued nationalization of industries, kicking out those foreign companies and replacing workers with Chavistas.
diminish
on July 24, 2018
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Who are Chavistas? An ethnic or religious group in the country or are they ordinary citizens who voted for the government?
someotherperson
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I believe it's a reference to people who are strong supporters of Chavez or the ideology[0].
So not necessarily ethnic or religious -- but political.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavismo
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