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...Maria Ángela Holguín, who dealt with Maduro as Colombia’s foreign minister from 2010-18, says that governments everywhere — in the US, the EU, Latin America and Venezuela’s own opposition — have underestimated...
...About 30 leaders are expected to speak, including Angela Merkel, Ursula von der Leyen, Christine Lagarde, Boris Johnson, Justin Trudeau and António Guterres....
...By the way, we worked with President Chávez because he was president. We did not work with President Chávez as an individual, but we worked with Venezuela....
...In Caracas, some cracks have appeared in the Bolivarian façade, constructed by the country’s late leader Hugo Chávez and bolstered with increasing difficulty by Mr Maduro since Mr Chavez’s death in 2013....
...Why did Hugo Chávez become an icon for the global left? 5. “Brazil is the country of the future and it always will be.” Was this a fair verdict between 1950 and 2016? 6....
...Labour has in Jeremy Corbyn a leader perfectly described by his unerring conviction that Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela was a socialist success story....
...Fidel’s mother was originally hired as a maid; she had Fidel, along with his sister Angela and brother Raúl, out of wedlock before she married Angel and bore four more children....
...“We are beggars of food, beggars of basic products, beggars of medicines, beggars of diapers for our children – right now we are beggars of everything,” says civil servant Ángela Torres, lining up to buy...
...Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, will be among the EU representatives....
...Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s cancer-stricken president and one of Mr Castro’s closest allies, then called it Latin America’s “most important political event in over 100 years”....
...“One of President Chavez’s big bets throughout these 14 years [of his presidency] has been to bet on peace in Colombia,” he said on Friday, after meeting María Ángela Holguín, his Colombian counterpart,...
...(Financial Times) Hugo Chavez was comfortably re-elected president of Venezuela: With 90% of the ballots counted 58-year-old Chavez had 54.42% of the vote, compared with 44.97% for young opposition candidate...
...Mr Hollande, who travels to Berlin for talks with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, on Thursday evening, knows that his credibility with both his European partners and the financial markets depends on...
...http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a6ebae46-9b0e-11e1-94d7-00144feabdc0.html Merkel brands Ukraine a ‘dictatorship’ Angela Merkel has described Ukraine as a “dictatorship”, ratcheting up European pressure on...
...Flouting western norms has made Mr Putin by far the most popular politician in his country, as similar actions have for Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez....
...Mr Santos will take office on August 7, and had already arranged for a meeting between his incoming foreign minister Maria Angela Holguin and Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s foreign minister....
...Mr Chávez to his inauguration....
...Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, always a fount of objective wisdom, was quick to join the chorus against the Yankee imperialists. So were sections of the European media....
...Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan president, delivered a typically abrasive speech on Wednesday as one of the first leaders to address the conference....
...Angela Merkel 42. Adolf Hitler 43. Richard Branson 44. Eva Peron 45. Stalin 46. Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic, 1930-61 47. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero 48....
...Asked about Prof Schwan’s comments, Angela Merkel, chancellor, erupted at the weekend....
...Angela Merkel has become the de facto mascot of the German football team. Vladimir Putin has a black belt in judo (see YouTube). President George W....
...Indeed, next year there is more likely to be a bout of populist rhetoric that could make even Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan president, blush....
...He is an adviser to Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, who has been a powerful force in shaping European policy....
...And I said to Chávez, look, Chávez, we are not creating a group of friends of Chávez, we want to create a group of friends of Venezuela....
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