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...Sitting at the counter in his daughter’s grocery shop in downtown Santiago, Hugo Toro recalled his relief when, in 1973, Chile’s military overthrew the democratically elected government of socialist president...
...The design and architecture is by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, who was an important figure in Mexico; and, as most people know, architecture has a special importance here....
...His spokesman, Jesús Ramírez, initially said the president felt unwell and was tested in the northern city of Monterrey on the eve of his return home....
...This month, Jesús Ramírez, the president’s press chief, tested positive for the virus....
...“Daniel Ortega can’t govern amid hostility from the US,” says Mr Ramírez....
...The Venezuelan military has long enjoyed a cosy relationship with government, ever since one of its own — Hugo Chávez — rose to power in the late 1990s....
...Congress, said an increasing number of socialists were fed up with Mr Maduro even though they still believed in Chávismo — the populist leftwing movement founded by the president’s charismatic predecessor Hugo...
...A week ago, Alexis López Ramírez, a military general and head of Venezuela's National Defence Council, resigned over the planned constituent assembly — a rare defection from inside the armed forces....
...The pragmatic fiery leftwing president was once seen as the regional heir of the late Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chávez....
...Crude oil production has fallen since Hugo Chávez rose to power in 1999 — down from a 1997 peak of almost 3.3m b/d to around 2.8m b/d now, according to government data....
...All that changed with the election of Hugo Chavez in 1999, followed by the assumption of direct political as opposed to professional control over the company in 2002....
...a cousin of the late president, Hugo Chávez....
..., a cousin of the late Hugo Chávez, promoted to his place....
...Since the late President Hugo Chávez died last year, not only has the economy deteriorated but economic attitudes have soured....
...It seems not, even if those were the words Venezuela’s foreign minister, Rafael Ramírez, penned in a statement this month....
...Since the late President Hugo Chávez died in March last year, Venezuelans have suffered rapidly deteriorating economic conditions, which sparked violent protests in recent months that left at least 42 people...
...The steady deterioration of Venezuela’s economy is blamed by many on stringent foreign exchange controls first imposed in 2003 by Hugo Chávez, the former president who died in March last year....
...Most economists blame the shortages on Venezuela’s grossly overvalued currency coupled with the decade-old currency controls imposed by the late President Hugo Chávez – inspired, according to one of his...
...Unease accelerated after economic tsar Rafael Ramírez was demoted to foreign minister as part of last week’s cabinet shuffle....
...These include the energy minister and vice-president in charge of the economy, Rafael Ramírez....
...The late President Hugo Chávez even called it “a bad business”. But García disagrees with the Comandante....
...“There will be no preset band or rate, it will be a market with a free supply of foreign currency,” Mr Ramírez said in Caracas on Friday....
...The bolivar has been devalued seven times during Hugo Chavez’s 14-years of rule....
...On Tuesday, he renamed the country’s biggest oilfield, the Orinoco Belt, after his mentor, Hugo Chávez. “I’ve decided as of today to name it the Hugo Chávez oil belt. Do you agree?”...
...“There will be no pre-set band or rate, it will be a market with a free supply of foreign currency,” Rafael Ramírez, Venezuela’s vice-president for the economy, said on Friday....
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