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...“We thought at first that because he was a working-class president, we would be represented,” says protester Ana Rosario Contreras, president of the Caracas Nursing Association....
...Starliner was launched last Thursday atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and docked at the ISS the next day....
...His vice-president, Delcy Rodríguez, had just arrived back from Moscow bearing seasonal tidings of comfort and joy regarding Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine....
...“It’s not like the standard V-shaped recession in emerging markets, such as in Indonesia in 1998 where it’s only a year and a half of real economic hardship,” he said....
...“I believed in Chávez. I don’t believe in Maduro,” Carlos says. “Maduro is not Chávez,” he adds. That last phrase is being repeated around the country like a mantra....
...Wearing the quintessential Andean outfit of bowler hat and flouncy skirt, Virginia Contreras says the gondola is proof that Mr Morales’s revolution is succeeding....
...Plus: why Dilma snubbed Barack; Samsung v HTC; Chávez’s shadow; and Ukraine should fall into the EU’s lap....
...- Roach v. Pettis (on China). - A flat ECB learning curve. - Government debt, inflation and money. - On a wing and a credit card. - Chavez’s gold bet. - Das Wort “Shitstorm”....
...Mr Correa may now be trying to step into Chávez’s shoes. “One gets the impression from Mr Correa’s behaviour that sometimes he wants to out-Chávez Chávez,” said a Latin American diplomat....
...“She is a curvy girl and quite petite, so it was important to show her bump,” says Chavez....
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...(Financial Times) Sweden’s Hakon Invest is acquiring the 60 per cent of shares it doesn’t own in Nordic food retailer ICA AB for 20 billion Swedish kronor ($3.1 billion) from Royal Ahold N.V....
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...The choice is yours, Chávez....
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...There’s nothing Hugo Chávez likes more than to shake his fist at the private sector. Nationalising businesses is one of his favourite pastimes, with his Queen-of-Hearts-like cry of “expropriate it!”...
...- China’s nappy war: Mamy Poko v Pampers & Huggies....
...Los de Abajo Actitud Calle (Wrasse) The hyper-politicised Mexico City ska punks take up where they left off on 2005’s LDA v The Lunatics....
...Chavez said Sunday.”How do you think, Obama, that I am going to accept that gentleman as ambassador?”...
...Note Chavez’s call to Arab nations last week for support on the creation of an oil-backed currency to challenge the US dollar....
...According to José Angel Contreras, a director of the farming union Fedenaga over the past 10 years kidnapping and extortion have increased significantly, with some 40 killings last year in Zulia alone....
...Miguel Angel Contreras, a political scientist at the Central University of Venezuela, said that the abolition of term limits would allow more lasting reforms than has usually been possible in the volatile...
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