So who is Nicolás Maduro? The 63-year-old former bus driver was hand-picked by Hugo Chavez to succeed him as Venezuela's president when he died in 2013. He then oversaw a spectacular economic collapse, elections widely considered rigged and harsh crackdowns on protests, all of which drove millions of Venezuelans abroad. Now he faces drug and weapons charges in the US.
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