{"id":76118,"date":"2026-01-28T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/28\/can-venezuelas-delcy-rodriguez-become-a-latin-american-deng-xiaoping"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:00:02","slug":"can-venezuelas-delcy-rodriguez-become-a-latin-american-deng-xiaoping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76118","title":{"rendered":"Can Venezuela\u2019s Delcy Rodr\u00edguez become a Latin American Deng Xiaoping?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maduro\u2019s Sorbonne-educated successor is talking up an era of \u2018reform and opening up\u2019 modelled on China\u2019s post-Mao boom<\/p>\n<p>After years of political and social upheaval, hunger and despair, the Great Helmsman departs and is replaced by a francophile economic reformer who catapults a traumatised country into a new era of prosperity and growth<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That is what happened in China half a century ago when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/commandingheights\/shared\/minitext\/prof_dengxiaoping.html\">the croissant-loving communist<\/a> Deng Xiaoping became paramount leader after Chairman Mao Zedong\u2019s 1976 death and set in motion one of history\u2019s biggest economic booms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/28\/can-venezuelas-delcy-rodriguez-become-a-latin-american-deng-xiaoping\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maduro\u2019s Sorbonne-educated successor is talking up an era of \u2018reform and opening up\u2019 modelled on China\u2019s post-Mao boomAfter years of political and social upheaval, hunger and despair, the Great Helmsman departs and is replaced by a francophile economic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":911,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,50,3491,695,3207,748,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-china","category-delcy-rodriguez","category-mao-zedong","category-nicolas-maduro","category-venezuela","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76119,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76118\/revisions\/76119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}