As president, Hugo Chávez lavished millions from this country’s oil boom on his home state of Barinas. He built a soccer stadium, highways, apartment houses and a hospital. He sang Barinas’s songs, danced its folk dances on television and rode with its cowboys over its open plains. Barinas returned the affection. Mr. Chávez and his party won elections handily here, and his father and later his brother Adán were elected governor. After Mr. Chávez died in 2013 , the people of Barinas gave their votes to his handpicked successor, Nicolás Maduro. But boom has turned to bust, the economy is in shambles and the love affair is over. Last week, in a gut blow for the movement […]