Venezuela’s future head of state will be decided in elections set to take place on the birthday of the late former president Hugo Chávez, July 28. The date for the presidential election has been “unanimously” set, the National Electoral Council (CNE) said in a press conference on Tuesday. Although he has not explicitly declared his candidacy, it is widely expected that authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro, who succeeded Chavez in 2013, will seek a third term in office. Chávez governed from 1999 until his illness and death in 2013. He launched the country’s socialist “Bolivarian revolution.” …