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Nicolas Maduro: Venezuela's iron-fisted 'worker president'

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado addresses supporters during a protest called by the opposition on the eve of the presidential inauguration, in Caracas on January 9, 2025. [AFP]

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, due to be sworn in Friday for a third six-year term after elections he is widely accused of stealing, has been written off many times during a turbulent decade in power.

But the former bus driver has stubbornly clung to the wheel.

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