Lopez's narrow middle-class message is limiting their reach because he reflects the minority privileged upper-middle class that used to rule Venezuela economically, socially and politically before the 5th Republic was founded. The real reason why there is violence in this country is because the privileged class economic, and political influence is slowly taken away by the working class of Venezuela over the past 15 years.
This privileged class was hording basic goods, jacked up prices, and speculate foreign currency against their own class peers as a prelude to the civil unrest. Their strategy is to stir up their "useful idiots" to rise against the government. When Maduro wisely used the current Enabling Act allowed by the 5th Republic Constitution to combat price-grouching, generic usury, and speculation, their sky high profits are threatened and now they're resorting to violent measures to take back their power.
This is what the real battle is about: Regressive Fascism (Neo-Fascism) vs 21st Century Socialism (Neo-Socialism). It is clear that in the end, 21st Century Socialism will win out as the working-class Venezuelans already have better lives, and they don't want a return to the old days of the 4th Republic, and they especially do not want another Chile-style Fascist Autocratic.
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