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...Daniel Wilkinson, Americas director at Human Rights Watch, says: “We have never been this worried about Venezuela.”...
...By Arturo C. Porzecanski, American University During the past dozen years, Argentina has been a destabilizing economic force within South America....
...Hugo Chávez, former president of Venezuela 23. Amazon....
...Mr Maduro succeeded Mr Chávez on his death earlier this year and then won a narrow election victory....
...President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia said the capture of Daniel Barrera, who had a $5m bounty on his head in the US, was “perhaps the most important arrest” in recent years....
...Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, and Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua, also did not attend....
...Then Nicaragua, to attend the inauguration of newly re-elected president Daniel Ortega. Today it’s the turn of the Castro brothers in Cuba. Tomorrow it is Ecuador....
...“In Nicaragua, nothing happens without Daniel’s approval.” That is worrying in a desperately poor country where democracy has been an infrequent visitor....
...The president tapped two retired military officers, Daniel Mora and Oscar Valdez Dancuart, to head defence and the interior respectively....
...There was no immediate reaction from Mr Chávez....
...Col Gaddafi has responded in kind by showering official honours on Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Bolivian president Evo Morales, Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega, and especially fellow Opec member Venezuela....
...“Changing the rules of the game from one day to the next does have a negative effect,” says Daniel Kerner, an analyst at Eurasia, a consultancy....
...He thinks that Cohn-Bendit’s comparing Orban to Chavez and Castro was unfair. [blackbirdpie url="https://twitter.com/#!...
...However, some critics accuse the Obama administration of caving in to pressure from Republicans on Capitol Hill to distance itself from Mr Zelaya because of the deposed president’s ties with Hugo Chávez,...
...But Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan president, told the summit in the plush ski resort of Bariloche that the plan was part of a new US military strategy....
...Yesterday Hugo Chavez fiercely condemned rhe coup – and Manuel Zelaya, the deposed president of Honduras, appeared alongside Chavez and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua at an emergency summit in Managua....
...Mr Chávez has also provided farmers with cheap fertilisers....
...At the summit, Mr Chávez sent out a series of warm signals towards Mr Obama....
...Sometimes his administration’s engagement with unconventional interlocutors has taken place in the glare of cameras, as when he grinned and gripped the hand of Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez....
...US officials are keen to prevent disagreements over Cuba from disrupting relations with centrist leaders in Trinidad, or from aggravating tensions with left-wing figures such as Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan president...
...Mr Frum cites four likely hopefuls, all governors: Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, John Huntsman of Utah, Mitch Daniel of Indiana and Charlie Crist of Florida....
...However, Mr Chávez also said the break with the US would be reconsidered after George W. Bush, the president, left office....
...According to Daniel Erikson of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, the US State department has been pursuing a vision aimed at converting China into a responsible stakeholder in Latin America....
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