Maduro starts his campaign hugging Chávez and with his back to the country. "What a great story we have lived and what we are yet to build and live!" Nicolás Maduro lectured Chavismo from the pulpit of his propaganda.

The Bolivarian Fury, a term coined by the president himself, arrived distributed in buses with leaders, officials, militiamen and the meager civil society that the ruling party has left from all parts of the country, writes Daniel Lozano.