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...If you go, ask instead to be put up at Luna Volcán, a newish place on the edge of the Tungurahua volcano, which, while a little over-romantic (“proposal dinner menu”, anyone?)...
...but that is how chavismo is,” said Asdrúbal Oliveros, head economist at Caracas consultancy Ecoanalítica, referring the socialist movement founded by Mr Maduro’s predecessor, the late Venezuelan leader Hugo...
...When Hugo Chávez came to power in 1999, launching the socialist “Bolivarian revolution”, some wealthy Venezuelans left, fearing Cuban-style communism....
...“The parallel exchange rate reflects the total loss of confidence in Maduro’s government,” wrote independent economist Orlando Ochoa. Now prices in certain stores can change daily....
...It would be the end of the world as adherents of chavismo, the political movement founded by Hugo Chávez, know it, and the apocalypse would not be orderly....
...He is leading the initiative together with Henri Falcón, a state governor and former member of the ruling PSUV party who broke with the late president Hugo Chávez in 2012....
...Additional reporting by John Paul Rathbone in London and Luna Lin in Beijing Letter in response to this letter: Quite a spread in the definition of liquidity / From Perry Aldred...
...The rapprochement began as back-channel talks two years ago, shortly after Hugo Chávez died of cancer....
...“The only maintenance they have done is to paint things red,” says Francisco Luna, a PDVSA union leader. “They make everything look nice and pretty but underneath it is all rusted....
...Attracted by that virginity, recently, western majors have been particularly drawn to the country’s deposits of shale oil and gas, oil sands and coal bed methane, mostly in La Luna, located on the Middle...
...Tenuta Uccellina’s Alma Luna is one example....
...President Hugo Chávez’s battle against cancer, which he solemnly admitted to in a brief televised message from Cuba on Thursday night, has plunged Venezuela’s political future into doubt....
...“I follow Andean traditions,” explains spa director Talia Luna. “The Incas didn’t use reiki, but knew all about the transfer of cosmic energy by hands....
...Belgian-Colombian Annabelle Lopez Ochoa has no trouble nailing down her theme, which as far as New Yorkers have seen is always the same: dank and doomy relationships....
...In an effort to prevent that prospect from happening, El Salvador’s Arena party, which has held office for the past two decades, recently launched a media campaign associating Mr Funes with Hugo Chávez,...
...Large numbers of Venezuelans reluctant to buy into President Hugo Chávez’s socialist dream opted instead to entrust their savings with Sir Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire charged with “massive and...
...Mr Morales’ deputy, Álvaro García Linera, and eight provincial governors also face recall votes on Sunday, in an election that is expected to deepen existing divisions between the resource-rich “media-luna...
...Bizarrely, another justification for creating Petrosal is that it would not become powerful enough to present a threat to the government (as Venezuela’s PDVSA became a threat to the government of Hugo Chávez...
...A committed capitalist, Leonardo Camacho has little time for the socialist ideals espoused by President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela....
...A year ago, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez seemed to be at the height of his power....
...Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s left-wing president, Monday night fulfilled his radical pledges with sweeping nationalisation plans for the country’s main telecommunications company and the biggest private power...
...But, like most of her neighbours, she will still vote for Hugo Chávez in Sunday’s presidential election....
...Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s president, has ordered the country’s central bank and legislature to introduce a new national currency that would knock three zeroes off the exchange value and could be renamed the...
...Ironically, Mr Ochoa said, it may soon be Venezuela that shows oil companies the door....
...“Money from Fonden is quasi-fiscal expenditure but it is enormous and how it is spent is completely discretional,” said Orlando Ochoa, an independent economist in Caracas....
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