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...The youngest, Jeisson García, was 13. Colombia has experienced a wave of violence in the past month....
...Until recently, she has been a mother — a nine-year-old boy named Polo (Cristián Suárez) adopted but now returned to the authorities after various troubling incidents....
...That is most unlike Chávez.”...
...His election followed the rise of other leftist leaders across Latin America including Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela....
...“This is not sustainable, it could blow up,” says Gonzalo Chávez, an economist at Bolivia’s Catholic University....
...Repression is not in our nature,” Álvaro García Linera, Bolivia’s vice-president, told the Financial Times....
...Peru’s Alan García killed himself. Most countries from El Salvador to Paraguay are today run by centrist, right-of-centre, or rightwing governments....
...However there are at least some echoes of the late Hugo Chávez in Mr López Obrador’s early moves....
...To his critics, he is another Hugo Chávez. But that comparison is overblown. Chávez was a tank commander who steamrollered his opposition....
...The topics we cover in the chat include an overview of Venezuelan history since the 1950s, the state’s reliance on oil, the specific policies enacted by Hugo Chavez that are responsible for the current disaster...
...Cardiff Garcia As you look back now on all of these policies, which from the standpoint of economic fundamentals are obviously problematic, how do you explain Chávez’s ability to do all this while maintaining...
...’s secretary is elected president of Paraguay (The Economist) Muere a los 88 años el exdictador boliviano Luis García Meza (El País) Special Report: A fractured peace — violent rivals rush into Farc void...
...Nicaragua timeline 1937 Anastasio Somoza García elected president....
...Alan Garcia has a political party, the APRA, but the APRA in Peru has been outlawed for so long, that has not played a role. Chavez comes from the military....
...They seek to moralize political conflict as much as possible (for Chavez, George W Bush was nothing less than the devil himself, as he declared on the world stage at a session of the United Nations)....
...The story inspired Gabriel García Márquez to write his novel Of Love and Other Demons....
...Testament to his skill are the framed photographs on his shop’s wall of satisfied clients, who include the actor Andy Garcia....
...Miguel Miguel García, a founding member of the national art gallery, says everything started to change when the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez rose to power in the late 1990s: “The decline started with...
...“It is practically inevitable to default if the current economic dynamic stays in place,” says Henkel García, an economist at Econométrica in Caracas....
...He added, in a time-honoured tactic, that this is yet another international attempt to discredit the socialist crusade launched by the late Hugo Chávez....
...When Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro took power two-and-a-half years ago, he inherited Hugo Chávez’s unshakeable commitment to service the country’s debts, and Venezuelan oil at over $110 a barrel....
...He says, however, that everything started to change when Hugo Chávez, the late president, rose to power in the late 1990s....
...He brilliantly described Chávez as “two opposing men. One to whom the caprices of fate had given an opportunity to save his country....
...The late President Hugo Chávez even called it “a bad business”. But García disagrees with the Comandante....
...Since the late President Hugo Chávez died last year, not only has the economy deteriorated but economic attitudes have soured....
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