Introduction

The current Venezuelan government[1] has called for a socialist revolution to bring its economic system more in line with that of Cuba: Nothing, nobody will be able to divert us from the road towards Bolivarian socialism, Venezuelan socialism, our socialism ... I swear [by] the people and [by] the fatherland that I will not give rest to my arm nor respite to my soul; that I will give my days and my nights and my whole life to the building of Venezuelan socialism, a new political system, a new social system, a new economic system ... Fatherland, Socialism or ...