Inside Caracas: Venezuela after Maduro

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  The Economist

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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  Our obituaries editor remembers Nick Pope, who remained open-minded to the very end.

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  But first.

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  I was recently able to get a visa to Venezuela after many years of trying

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  and came at the last minute and so I got out there

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  and travelled around the country

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  and what I found was quite a striking feeling of optimism.

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  A hundred days on more or less from the raid by American special forces

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  that seized Nicolas Maduro,

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  the then president and strongman of the country.

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  Kinley Salmon is our Latin America correspondent.

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  I tried to get out and about.

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  I got out of the capital Caracas to a town called Ocumare del Tuy

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  to a political party's meeting and there were hundreds of jubilant people there.

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  They'd come along despite this being a traditionally very pro-regime town.

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