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...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Paloma Varga Weisz, whose work caught my eye recently at Barbara Gladstone gallery in Brussels. I fell in love with her sculptures in wood....
...Jaime Vargas, president of CONAIE, said 20,000 protesters would be in the capital by then....
...Fidel Castro had been in power in Cuba since 1959, but the election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1998 marked the first real change....
...In December 1999, when he was 16, Vargas was hit by massive mud slides that killed thousands....
...There were clashes in Caracas and local media reported confrontations in the states of Lara, Barquisimeto and Vargas....
...On Sunday, Mr Guaidó was detained briefly by security forces who stopped his car on a highway between Caracas and his home state of Vargas....
...Mr Mourão, who was Brazil’s military attaché to Caracas during an attempted coup against the late Hugo Chávez, acknowledges that regime change in Venezuela would be “difficult”, but “we have to be part of...
...Ernesto Geisel, the general who presided over Brazil’s dictatorship from 1974 to 1979 — in a compendium of interviews published in 1997 by the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) academic institution — called...
...Yet intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Mario Vargas Llosa broke with Havana from the late 1960s onwards over increasing repression and censorship....
...Presidents Juan and Eva Perón (Argentina), Getúlio Vargas (Brazil) and Hugo Chávez (Venezuela) did not just respond to popular demands, they manufactured them....
...Venezuelan debt: China to play central role as investors fear default Just over a decade ago, amid an oil price boom, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez visited Beijing....
...And then we started working on other cases – [Juan] Peron in Argentina, Getulio Vargas in Brazil....
...The socialist government of the late President Hugo Chávez, scourge of the country’s private sector, took over Mr del Vizo’s estate, which had a polo field....
...The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), led by President Hugo Chávez, dealt the opposition a heavy blow in regional elections on Sunday, winning the governorships of at least 20 of the 23 states...
...He was showered with acclaim but, unlike García Márquez and Vargas Llosa, the Nobel Prize for literature eluded him....
...In one memorable quote, the always-elegant figure with a neat, cropped moustache, lambasted Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, calling him a “tropical Mussolini”....
...Venezuelans voted on Sunday in an opposition primary expected to name a young state governor to challenge Hugo Chávez this year at a close presidential election in South America’s biggest oil exporter....
...Besides the neo-nazis and a Stalinist communist party there is Syriza, whose leader is a fan of Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez....
...By contrast, Vargas Llosa has continued to protest against all forms of authoritarianism, be that of the left or right....
...Mr Vargas Llosa, who lost to Mr Fujimori in the 1990 elections, eventually endorsed Mr Humala....
...sought to reposition himself in the Brazilian social democratic mould (“I am not from the political left or the right, but below”), he has struggled to shake off his radical past, especially his links to Hugo...
...Mr Vargas Llosa said he disliked Mr Humala, a self proclaimed “disciple of Lula” who he believed was actually closer to the more radical Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, but said a second Fujimori presidency would...
...But how she deals with unions, in particular with Hugo Moyano, the leader of the main union confederation, will be key if, as expected, she wins a second term in office in elections in October....
...Mr Toledo lost support to Mr Kuczynski in the past week, however, and even with Mr Vargas Llosa’s endorsement, he could not recover....
...Nonetheless, the rise of this one-time ally of Venezuelan socialist leader Hugo Chávez has sparked near-hysteria among local commentators and quickened the pulses of international investors, for whom Peru...
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