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...From the balcony of the presidential palace last week, Gustavo Petro denounced “neoliberalism” for causing war, Covid-19, hunger and the climate crisis....
...Rebecca Bill Chávez, president of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, believes that measuring Latin America’s leaders on a traditional political axis is outmoded....
...Three years after Chavéz came to power, Colombia elected the hawkish rightwing president Álvaro Uribe, who cracked down on leftwing guerrilla groups that had Chavez’s support....
...Conservatives in Colombia, which is sheltering the biggest contingent of about 2.5mn Venezuelans, warned time and again during this year’s election that the radical leftwing candidate, Gustavo Petro, would...
...Now, as western nations consider what to do about Venezuela, Colombia’s newly elected leftwing president Gustavo Petro is trying a different approach....
...Colombia’s leftwing president, Gustavo Petro, tweeted after Sunday night’s result that “Pinochet has come back to life”. He could not be more wrong....
...To the contrary, many of these candidates and we’re talking about the candidate in Colombia, Gustavo Petro, who was very close to Hugo Chávez and very close to the Venezuelan government, who has been distancing...
...In the past, in the earlier Lula administrations, its stance vis-à-vis Chávez was ambiguous at best....
...The strict currency controls that Chávez introduced in 2003 have largely been dismantled. The expropriation of private companies, another hallmark of the Chávez era, has ended....
...But radical leftist candidate Gustavo Petro, who finished second in the 2018 election, is determined to run again....
...To his critics, he is another Hugo Chávez. But that comparison is overblown. Chávez was a tank commander who steamrollered his opposition....
...Duque, a rightwing, 41-year-old Georgetown-educated lawyer, had taken 39.1 per cent of the vote, a full 14 percentage points ahead of his nearest rival, leftwing former guerrilla and ex-mayor of Bogotá Gustavo...
...But after Chavez’s death in 2013, things soured....
...In his victory speech on Sunday night after comfortably beating leftwing rival Gustavo Petro, Mr Duque said the Farc deal required “corrections”, without saying what they might be....
...blocking the highways, but it was not the Caracazo in Venezuela, a fortnight of riots 1989 triggered by sharp rises in petrol prices which provoked two coups attempts and ultimately the rise of the late Hugo Chávez...
...It is run by Gustavo Díaz, a Home Depot employee in Alabama and retired colonel who tried to topple Chávez in a 2002 coup attempt. “In this country, no one can set prices based on DolarToday....
...“The world is eating more and it is eating better, and that is a trend that will not be reversed,” says Gustavo Grobocopatel, a prominent Argentine farmer sometimes called “the king of soya”....
...Mayor Gustavo Petro will appeal the decision. Even so, the move had analysts at Bancolombia dropping their jaws....
...He brilliantly described Chávez as “two opposing men. One to whom the caprices of fate had given an opportunity to save his country....
...After an hour-and-a-half rehearsing Tchaikovsky’s Fantasy Overture “Romeo and Juliet” with a mixed youth orchestra from east London and Los Angeles, Gustavo Dudamel felt the need to sit down on the podium...
...it’s only natural that the people leading the [government’s] communicational hegemony would set their sights on newspapers, looking to curb dissenting voices and control the flow of information,” wrote Gustavo...
...Indeed, Gustavo Coronel, a former board member, likens the company today to “a toothless tiger resting on its haunches before a huge slice of raw meat”....
...El Sistema decades before Hugo Chávez came to power....
...Twenty-seven per cent believe Humala is sincere in seeking to emulate Lula over Venezuela’s leftist president Hugo Chávez....
...“I have to be very prudent, because I am not Mr Chávez’s best friend,” says Mr Santos. “I have said that you could elect Mother Teresa as president of Colombia and Mr Chávez would pick a fight anyway....
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