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...Eastern Europe has learned that when populists return to power, they want revenge, writes Ivan Krastev, and that will fuel a second Trump administration....
...Some of those close to Petro insist that the administration will be pragmatic, more akin to European social democracy than to firebrand Latin American leftwingers such as former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez...
...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....
...Iván Duque, president of Latin America’s fourth-biggest economy Colombia, could end up being the most important invitee....
...In 2018, he was instrumental in propelling Colombia’s current leader, Iván Duque, to the presidency....
...A close friend and ally of former president Hugo Chávez, Mr Cabello was jailed for his part in a failed coup in 1992 and then rose to power by Mr Chávez’s side from 1999....
...“We’re stupid — we let ourselves be mistreated,” says Zenaida Chávez, whose daughter Linda Olguín Chávez went back to her abusive partner, only to be stabbed to death, her throat cut, in 2014....
...The payroll ballooned from fewer than 30,000 in 2003 to a peak of 117,000 in 2014, according to Iván Freites, a senior union leader at the company....
...Unasur foundered because it was hijacked by “21st-century socialism”, a Chávez-inspired ideology that has since gone out of fashion....
...Gen Ornelas was close to Hugo Chávez and took part with him in a failed 1992 coup attempt in which he helped take La Carlota base....
...At the UNHCR centre, no one has a good word to say about Mr Maduro — even those who supported his predecessor and mentor Hugo Chávez....
...Another is President Iván Duque Márquez of Colombia. Estimates say that as many as 1m Venezuelans have crossed the border — an ironic reversal from the days of the drug wars....
...The second, which included Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, were intransigent ideologues from “the great tradition of Latin American populism”....
...Iván Duque will become the youngest elected president in Colombia’s 132-year history as a republic when he takes office in August, but many of the problems he will inherit are far older than he is and it...
...His candidate for the presidency, Iván Duque, was doing fine without him....
...In recent years, Hugo Chávez chose Nicolás Maduro as his successor in Venezuela. Rafael Correa anointed Lenín Moreno to be the next president of Ecuador....
...In the lobby of the building where Iván Freites works, a photograph of an oil rig covers one wall. Emblazoned across it is the Venezuelan flag and a quote from former president Hugo Chávez....
...an opposition-friendly website that follows Venezuela closely, this is “an even more pro-Cuban cabinet” than the last, and pushes old-school “Chavistas” — who took their lead from former president Hugo Chávez...
...This week The Wall Street Journal said the DEA had an even more senior Farc member, Iván Márquez, in its sights, also on suspicion of drug-trafficking....
...In the first round of Colombia's presidential election, centre-right Senator Iván Duque, a protégé of a former rightwing president, took 39.1 per cent of the vote, a full 14 percentage points ahead of his...
...“There have been a great number of concessions,” warns Iván Duque, a member of Mr Uribe’s No camp....
...The days when the Chávez government prided itself on decent medical care for the poor are long gone....
...Mr Uribe has said the “Farc confesses its likelihood, and willingness to impose the [Hugo] Chávez doctrine that has played out in Venezuela”....
...Chávez was himself forced to extend Easter by three days to save energy....
...Iván Chávez, Aston Martin Mexico marketing manager: We thought initially of Palmas and Lomas – two upscale neighbourhoods – and even entertained the idea of Santa Fe or Interlomas to the west, which have...
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