Hard-line leftists growing impatient with Venezuela's socialist administration

FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2014 file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, center, leads a workshop for state workers in front of a banner showing Maduro, left, and Venezuela's former President Hugo Chavez and reads in Spanish "Workshop: Maximum Socialist Effectiveness. State companies in the construction of the new economic order, " at the headquarters of Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) oil compnay in Caracas, Venezuela. Maduro was tapped by Chavez as his preferred successor to the presidency, and is quick to invoke the late leader’s name, but orthodox socialists are grumbling over free-market reforms they say are counter to the revolution. (AP Photo/Alejandro Cegarra, File) (The Associated Press)

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2009 file photo, Venezuela's Planning Minister Jorge Giordani attends a press conference at Miraflores Palace where an image of Simon Bolivar hangs behind in Caracas, Venezuela. In June of 2014, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro fired Giordani, a Marxist economist whose Spartan lifestyle and anti-capitalist doctrine earned him the nickname “the Monk.” Giordani is not going into forced retirement quietly. In a lengthy tract published on several websites, he has accused Maduro of undoing Chavez’s gains and failing to control his administration, implying corruption and incompetence. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File) (The Associated Press)