Sabía Hugo Chávez, Hugo Chávez era un amigo mío ....

And, says former Venezuelan Minister for 'planning', Jorge Giordani (Since 1999...one of the architects of the system of currency and price controls which regulates the Venezuelan economy...also known as a promoter of more orthodox Marxist thinking within the Bolivarian process.), Nicolás Maduro, you're no Hugo Chávez;

The eternally serving planning minister, Jorge Giordani, who used to be Chávez’s intellectual mentor, issued a letter following his dismissal on June 17. The letter chided President Nicolás Maduro for failing to convey a sense of leadership, for giving people the feeling that there is a power vacuum in the country, and for making the wrong decisions on economic issues.

Nor was he the only disaffected Chavista;

...several former Chávez ministers took sides by expressing support for either Giordani or for his critics. Among these was Héctor Navarro, another early member of Chávez’s retinue who was summarily dismissed from the national leadership by Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).

Rafael Isea, a former finance minister, lamented PSUV’s treatment of former Chávez officials who have expressed criticism of Maduro’s administration. Speaking from his current residence in the United States, he called the goverment's attitude “an extremely serious mistake.”

Watch out for visitors with ice axes, boys;

The critics include several leading figures from the days of Hugo Chávez, giving the impression that Chavismo could be making way for Madurismo, a somewhat more pragmatic and revisionist take on the Bolivarian Revolution that is trying to take the leftist movement down a similar path as that followed by Deng Xiaoping when he opened up Communist China to business and trade.

But now that he can no longer conceal the internal rift, Nicolás Maduro is starting to sound more like Stalin. 

Or Castro.