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...“Venezuela is a repressive state where the entire system exists only to intimidate,” said Alfredo Romero, the director of Foro Penal, a human rights pressure group based in Caracas....
...They cannot be implemented unless you have absolute control of congress,” said Alfredo Thorne, a former finance minister....
...Alfredo Romero of Foro Penal, a local rights group, fears the state of emergency could be used as a “pretext to suspend constitutional rights and freedoms”, while Luis Vicente León, a political analyst,...
...Having swapped his Hugo Chávez-esque rhetoric for an electorally palatable, Brazilian-inspired centre-left script as easily as if he was changing t-shirts, Humala has once again rattled investors with the...
...Nicolás Maduro – the 50-year-old heir to the late Hugo Chávez who won by less than 300,000 votes, giving him nearly 51 per cent of the poll – was inaugurated on Friday night in the presence of delegations...
...By Alfredo Behrens of the FIA business school For the past half century Brazilian politics has produced exceptional leaders from very different backgrounds....
...But then-President Alfredo Palacio was under pressure from indigenous groups in the oil-rich Ecuadorean Amazon to expel the company for allegedly exploiting natural resources with no benefit for poor local...
...In Paraguay, after Alfredo Stroessner’s 35-year dictatorship, they are banned....
...He reiterated Paraguay’s assertions that Venezuela had tried to persuade military chiefs before the vote to intervene to prop up Mr Lugo – a serious claim in a country ruled by military strongman Alfredo...
...Related reading: Venezuela: say hello to the junta, beyondbrics Venezuela: paying the Chávez price, beyondbrics Venezuela’s inflation quick fix?, beyondbrics Venezuela’s election economy, beyondbrics...
...The FT’s very own John Paul Rathbone has written a book about the man who nearly became Castro’s Minister for SugarIn 2007 Hugo Chavez of Venezuela took control of multi-billion oil projects in the Orinoco...
...Spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro said her doctors were “pleased to announce that definitive tests … ruled out the presence of cancerous cells, altering the initial diagnosis”....
...This is at the core of the strength of the populist pact so characteristic of Argentina’s Perón, Brazil’s Lula, Venezuela’s Chávez, Algeria’s Boumediene, Egypt’s Nasser and so many others....
...Even so, his detractors eye warily Mr Ortega’s friendship with Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s socialist president....
...Concerns are now mounting at the rift emerging between the Spanish and Venezuelan governments, after Spain’s first vice-president, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, said a statement issued on Thursday by Venezuela...
...While Toledo is still the overall favourite, pollster Alfredo Torres says no one is a shoe-in for the second round. Let the fun begin. Related reading: Peru file, beyondbrics...
...“Nobody has a guaranteed place in the second round vote,” says Alfredo Torres of the Ipsos Apoyo opinion poll....
...Alfredo Torres, head of Ipsos Apoyo polls, says centrist candidates made a mistake in championing policies of continuity. “Peruvians like change. Campaigning on continuity is an error....
...The US administration sees Brazil as a moderating force to counter moves by President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela to spread his “21st century socialism” across the region....
...Latin America’s latest unorthodox leftwing leader is striving to avoid comparisons with Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez or Bolivia’s Evo Morales, and sees himself as a moderate....
...Hugo Chávez, the populist Venezuelan president, has moved to take control of “strategic” parts of the economy, including Banco de Venezuela, owned by Santander....
...“The information coming from the computers has fuelled the diplomatic crisis between Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia,” said Alfredo Rangel, director of the Security and Democracy Foundation, a Bogotá think-tank...
...But Caracas-based pollster Alfredo Keller, who uses a different method of polling, says Mr Rosales has been closing the gap and is roughly on par with Mr Chávez, because the government’s support base is...
...“It’s one thing to respect Chavez, but we cannot follow that model here as we don’t produce 3m barrels of oil a day like Venezuela does....
...Chávez´s election At first glance, a new opinion poll by Alfredo Keller, the pollster, in Venezuela seems to suggest that Hugo Chávez could actually lose December´s presidential election....
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