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...Instead they lobby privately and hope that a moderate faction, which includes finance minister José Antonio Ocampo and education minister Alejandro Gaviria, will act as a brake on Petro....
...José Antonio Cadiz, a 19-year-old health worker, marched clutching a replica kidney in his hand. “That’s all we Venezuelans have to eat,” he said. “Offal.”...
...The far-right candidate in last December’s Chilean presidential election run-off, José Antonio Kast, pledged in the campaign to dig a ditch across the north of the country to halt the influx of Venezuelans...
...In the past, in the earlier Lula administrations, its stance vis-à-vis Chávez was ambiguous at best....
...The state is currently embroiled in an intense debate over vaccine and mask mandates, with multiple school districts, including those in Houston, Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio, requiring masks despite...
...Others, such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez or Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, did the reverse, with disastrous results....
...“Clearly Amlo will keep on being Amlo, and this is something businesses and society have to learn to live with — we’re not going to change him,” said Antonio del Valle, head of the Mexican Business Council...
...follow in the footsteps of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, radicalising once in power and building an authoritarian socialist state....
...About 30 leaders are expected to speak, including Angela Merkel, Ursula von der Leyen, Christine Lagarde, Boris Johnson, Justin Trudeau and António Guterres....
...I mean come on — this man has a bust of César Chávez in his office and is close friends with AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka....
...However there are at least some echoes of the late Hugo Chávez in Mr López Obrador’s early moves....
...But after Chavez’s death in 2013, things soured....
...He once praised the leftist Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, and said former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso should face a firing squad for privatising state companies....
...It is a script that has played out many times before in the region: most recently with Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, or Ollanta Humala in Peru....
...“What’s more, he doesn’t want to be like Chávez, or Trump, or that Nicaraguan thug Ortega,” he elaborated....
...His supporters appear willing to ignore his many contradictions, such as how he once praised the leftist Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, and voted for Brazil’s leftwing former president Luiz Inácio Lula...
...His strongest opponent is José Antonio Meade, 48, whose candidacy was officially endorsed by the president last week....
...Briefly Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI) replaces its president in a bid to kick-start the floundering campaign of its candidate José Antonio Meade just two months before presidential elections...
...Thousands have poured over the footbridge that separates the Venezuelan town of San Antonio from the Colombian city of Cúcuta....
...“We made many mistakes within the framework of armed conflict,” admits Carlos Antonio Lozada, one of the few top Farc commanders to recognise openly the political challenges of peace....
...Murals of Hugo Chávez, Mr Maduro’s charismatic predecessor, and Simon Bolívar, Latin America’s great liberator, have been defaced....
...I doubt that he is Mexico’s Hugo Chavez, so suspect that a victory for him would create an opportunity to buy, much as Lula's victory did. I also have a hunch that he may not win....
...has also created further friction between Venezuela and ExxonMobil, which have been fighting a decade-long legal battle over compensation for oil projects expropriated by the government of the late Hugo Chávez...
...“Venezuela is being Somalia-ised,” said Mr Pérez, who served as planning minister under deceased former president Hugo Chávez....
...Those include freeing more jailed dissidents, among them Antonio Ledezma, the mayor of Caracas; granting the opposition more seats in the electoral council, and establishing an electoral calendar that might...
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