Ken Livingstone: Venezuela crisis caused by Chávez's failure to kill oligarchs

Ex-London mayor says wealthy families using power over trade to undermine Chávez’s successor President Maduro

Ken Livingstone, a former mayor of London, has blamed the turmoil in Venezuela on Hugo Chávez’s unwillingness to execute “oligarchs” after he came to power.

Livingstone, who is suspended from the Labour party, also blamed the economic crisis in the country on the government’s failure to take his advice on investment in infrastructure, which he said would have reduced the Latin American state’s dependence on oil.

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