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...When Maduro assumed power following his mentor’s death, a downward spiral that had begun under Chávez accelerated....
...Already this year Venezuela has arrested Rocío San Miguel, a prominent opposition military analyst and lawyer, while members of her family briefly also went missing....
...Rebecca Bill Chávez, president of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, believes that measuring Latin America’s leaders on a traditional political axis is outmoded....
...That was always the original plan,” tweeted José Miguel Vivanco, former head of Human Rights Watch’s Americas division. “Today, a new [Hugo] Chávez emerges.”...
...During Vivanco’s long career, he negotiated face-to-face with Fidel Castro for the release of political prisoners in Cuba and was thrown out of Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela by a gang of armed men in 2008 for...
...Gustavo Pulido, head of the Caracas stock exchange, wants to turn the bourse into a multicurrency exchange. “It’s impossible to do business in bolívares,” he complains....
...A 1947 military coup ousted a democratically elected president, until another putsch in 1958 restored democracy. Mr Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez then led a failed coup in 1992....
...Unasur foundered because it was hijacked by “21st-century socialism”, a Chávez-inspired ideology that has since gone out of fashion....
...The other members are Carlos Hank González, of Banorte; Sergio Gutiérrez of DeAcero; Miguel Rincón of Bio-Pappel; Daniel Chávez de Vidanta and Miguel Allemán of Interjet....
...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....
...Raúl Castro, 86, stood down as president of Cuba and was replaced by Miguel Díaz-Canel, 57, the vice-president....
...“The peace accord is a beautiful document,” says José Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch. “But however beautiful the conception, daily reality in much of Colombia is just too hard.”...
...Mr Capriles on Sunday met former interior minister Miguel Rodríguez, who has fallen out with the government....
...Miguel Rodríguez, Mr Maduro’s former interior minister but now a fierce critic, has called the system “a source of unlimited corruption”....
...Many see the barring of Mr Capriles — who lost against the late Hugo Chávez in 2012 and then narrowly against Mr Maduro in 2013 — as a Machiavellian action by authorities, similar to that of another presidential...
...Carlos Miguel Álvarez, a senior economist with the Caracas-based Ecoanalítica, sees the measure as shortsighted....
...minister and economic tsar, Miguel Pérez Abad, regarded as potential reformist....
...Seeking to reassure investors this month, Miguel Pérez Abad, Venezuela’s economic tsar, told news agencies that the country has reached a deal with its main financier China to extend loans, and that he would...
...Miguel Pérez Abad, former head of the chamber of small and medium enterprises, is the new industry minister....
...The late Hugo Chávez left an economy on the ropes to his anointed successor....
...In 1998, a year before former leader Hugo Chávez took office, the rate was 19 per 100,000, says the think-tank’s director Roberto Briceño León, adding that after 17 years of socialist “revolution”, it is...
...Miguel Miguel García, a founding member of the national art gallery, says everything started to change when the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez rose to power in the late 1990s: “The decline started with...
...“I believed in Chávez. I don’t believe in Maduro,” Carlos says. “Maduro is not Chávez,” he adds. That last phrase is being repeated around the country like a mantra....
...“The Museum of Contemporary Art was a jewel,” says Miguel Miguel García, a respected curator and founding member of the national art gallery....
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