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...Once-loyal “Chavistas” such as former ministers Elías Jaua and José Vicente Rangel are increasingly critical....
...In Dragon in the Tropics: Venezuela and The Legacy of Hugo Chávez, Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold outline how the former president, who died in 2013, “took no chances [and] left behind a legacy of laws...
...Nonetheless, former vice-president José Vicente Rangel cites other polls which say Mr Maduro’s ratings among Chavistas remains high at 89 per cent....
...Led by the vice-president, Elias Jaua, the council’s members are José Vicente Rangel, a previous vice-president and a prominent journalist; Admiral Carlos Rafael Giacopini; Luis Britto García, a writer and...
...Mr Medina Mora’s successor is Arturo Chávez, a former attorney-general of the state of Chihuahua, one of the hotspots in the drugs war....
...“Expectations were really very high,” says Javier Santiso, chief economist of the development centre at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris....
...Javier Pérez, the head of the cattle ranching association in the border state of Táchira, suggests that US involvement in Plan Colombia has complicated matters for the government of Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan...
...Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is the first prime minister actively to support the work of civil war archaeologists....
...The most important cabinet change sees the departure of Vice-president José Vicente Rangel, a veteran politician, and his replacement by Jorge Rodríguez, an ardent leftist and former head of the electoral...
...Mr Chávez, who was re-elected last month, appointed Jorge Rodríguez, a psychiatrist and a former head of the national electoral authority, to replace vice-president José Vicente Rangel, 77, a veteran political...
...In a column in Monday’s pro-Chávez newspaper Vea, “Marciano”, a nom-de-plume of José Vicente Rangel, the vice-president, signalled that the government was willing to extend much-needed conciliation....
...Last week the president reshaped his cabinet, dismissing among others vice-president José Vicente Rangel and Nelson Merentes, the finance minister....
...A Spanish government spokesman said on Wednesday that José Vicente Rangel, Venezuela’s vice-president, had told Mr Moratinos the deal would not be possible during a visit to Madrid on Tuesday....
...Venezuela’s vice-president, José Vicente Rangel, on Monday said his country’s “doors were open” to all asylum seekers....
...“They knew they were going to be defeated,’’ said José Vicente Rangel, vice-president. “Fine, they can go to hell then.’’...
...Jose Vicente Rangel, vice-president, said Venezuela was unruffled by the decision. “We could also propose the decertification of the United States in its fight war against drugs-trafficking,” he said....
...José Vicente Rangel, Venezuela's vice-president, described the comment as a “terrorist” statement....
...José Vicente Rangel, vice-president, said that how US authorities responded would demonstrate their commitment to fighting terrorism....
...Mr Uribe was due to meet Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in Madrid, French president Jacques Chirac in Paris, and Javier Solana, the European Union’s foreign and security policy chief...
...José Vicente Rangel, vice-president, said Colombia's government paid “a bribe” to Venezuelan security officials to capture Rodrigo Granda, a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia....
...Ready Rangel The ambitions of vice-president José Vicente Rangel have sparked intense speculation among the inquisitive chattering class of Caracas....
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