Summary: Chavez is still recovering but over the weekend voters in Venezuela re-elected his main rival, Henrique Capriles Radonski, as governor of one of the country’s most populous states. Candidates loyal to Chavez won the governorship in 19 other states. We’ll speculate about possible successors to Chavez with Javier Corrales, professor of political science at Amherst College and co-author of the book, Dragon in the Tropics: Hugo Chavez and the political economy of revolution in Venezuela.
