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...There was confusion about the role of General José Ornelas Ferreira, chief of the armed forces general staff, and whether he had given his support to Mr Guaidó....
...To his critics, he is another Hugo Chávez. But that comparison is overblown. Chávez was a tank commander who steamrollered his opposition....
...“Like John Paul II with Poland and his war against communism, it’s the same with Francis and capitalism....
...“Nicaragua needs as early an exit as possible,” said José Adán Aguerri, head of the largest business chamber, last week....
...“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....
...Mr Maduro might use his re-election to purge rivals within “Chavismo”, the movement founded by his late mentor Hugo Chávez....
...“What’s more, he doesn’t want to be like Chávez, or Trump, or that Nicaraguan thug Ortega,” he elaborated....
...Hugo Chávez is the nightmare of Colombia’s oligarchs!”...
...“We have all gathered — workers, the young, students and Venezuelans of all kinds — to show . . . that we want change this year, whether the government wants it or not,” said opposition lawmaker José Luis...
...José Mujica, the former Uruguayan president, this week called Mr Maduro “crazy as a goat”. More than two-thirds of Venezuelans believe he should not finish his term....
...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...
...José Guerra, an opposition member of the legislature’s finance commission, confirmed the talks....
...Arguably he gave most importance to the ideas of the man he sought to equal: José Martí, the 19th-century national hero....
...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...
...“I can’t import oak barrels to mature my wine,” cries José Manuel Ortega, a fine winemaker, in exasperation. “Yet for every $1 of imported oak, I can export $15 of wine....
...Mr Castro was waiting for him at Jose Martí International Airport – an impressive talent-spot as it was another five years until Mr Chávez won elections to become president....
...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....
...Yields on Venezuela’s benchmark 2027 dollar bond have risen to 9.5 per cent from 8.9 per cent since Hugo Chávez died on March 5....
...Mr Diaz-Canel replaces former first vice-president, José Machado Ventura, 82, who will continue as one of Cuba’s five vice-presidents....
...Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s fiery socialist president, struck a characteristic pose last week when he said his country would fight alongside Argentina in the event of a conflict – something Ms Fernández constantly...
...More recently, Iran has made a diplomatic push into Latin America, conspicuously courting the friendship of Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s socialist president....
...The first of Krauze’s 12 intellectual biographies are of the precursor “prophets”, as he calls them – writers such as Cuba’s José Martí and Mexico’s José Vasconcelos....
...But few in Latin America, apart from anti-imperialist Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, would disagree....
...Caracas a “sell”.John Paul Rathbone is the FT’s Latin America editor and author of the forthcoming book “The Sugar King of Havana: the rise and fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba’s last tycoon”...
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