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...Join the FT’s Washington reporter Steff Chávez for your essential guide to the twists and turns of the 2024 presidential election....
...In the past, in the earlier Lula administrations, its stance vis-à-vis Chávez was ambiguous at best....
...In what appeared to be a thinly veiled threat, Mr Duterte in December said of the Lopez family’s stake in ABS-CBN: “If I were you, I’d sell it.”...
...“I’d rather stay here, try to start a small business and get a plot of land.”...
...“The effects of the [peace] accord are [constitutionally] limited,” says Manuel José Cepeda, a former constitutional court judge, who disagrees with the No camp objections....
...But they’d never get it approved. The government controls the electoral commission, the Supreme Court, the constituent assembly. Who can win against all that?”...
...But now, “I’d prefer a president who doesn’t kill us”....
...If he were alive today he’d be on our side, on the right side of history.”...
...“This is a coup d’état,” declared the red beret-wearing paratrooper, shortly before being captured....
...Barely a week after his old chum Benoit d’Angelin quit Ondra, the boutique they founded together after the financial crisis, Tory has found another francophone to step into his shoes....
..."In Venezuela, there will be neither a coup d'état nor a gringo intervention," Mr Maduro roared to supporters....
...“Venezuelans are facing one of the highest murder rates in the hemisphere and urgently need effective protection from violent crime,” said José Miguel Vivanco HRW’s Americas director....
...compromising corruption scandals in Chile, Guatemala and Bolivia; to Petrobras’ $3bn kickback scheme that has led to the arrest of senior lawmakers across Brazil’s political spectrum; or the bizarre case of José...
...They were trying to spark national maritime pride but after a failed rescue attempt, the abandoned La Sanmartiniana — named after South American independence hero José de San Martín — drifted towards the...
...Analysts say Venezuelans’ support for the government under former president Hugo Chávez has broken down under his successor Mr Maduro....
...“I have told Maduro: no [assassination], no coup d’état – [only his] resignation,” she has said....
...He made reference several times to a coup in 2002 that briefly ousted his mentor and predecessor, the late Hugo Chávez. “We are facing a coup d’état in the making,” the former bus driver said....
...That remains as true as ever today when it comes to Venezuela’s contested presidential election, which Nicolás Maduro, heir of Hugo Chávez, won by a whisker....
...Uruguay’s leftist former guerrilla president, José Mujica, is renowned for telling it like it is....
...Think about it,” said Mr Maduro, accusing the “fascist” opposition of planning a coup d’etat, and comparing them to Adolf Hitler’s shock troops....
...the opposition’s last failed attempt to overthrow the late Hugo Chávez in 2002....
...Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s cancer-stricken president and one of Mr Castro’s closest allies, then called it Latin America’s “most important political event in over 100 years”....
...“For years, President Chávez and his followers have been building a system in which the government has free rein to threaten and punish Venezuelans who interfere with their political agenda,” said José Miguel...
...José Adán Aguerri, head of the country’s influential Cosep business association, says the relationship with Mr Ortega is “constructive and fluid”....
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