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...Chase it with a margarita made with Madre mescal....
...For years, US authorities have alleged Hizbollah has a training camp on Margarita Island, just off the Venezuelan coast....
...The first migrants who left Venezuela in the early 2000s when Hugo Chávez, Mr Maduro’s predecessor, was preaching revolution have built new lives in their adopted countries....
...A few days ago, a former minister in one of Hugo Chávez’s governments invited me and other acquaintances to a display of tai chi and kung fu on the rooftop terrace of his apartment block in Caracas....
...In Mexico, Margarita Zavala, a conservative presidential hopeful, tweeted: “May the new dawn in Cuba bring democracy and liberty denied for generations.”...
...Alongside the street marches, some of the opposition coalition have tentatively agreed to restart talks with the government on October 30 in a dialogue sponsored by the Vatican on Margarita Island, a tourist...
...A day later during a visit to Margarita island, videos taken by ordinary Venezuelans show people chasing and booing Mr Maduro while banging pots and pans....
...“Compared to Chávez, Maduro has no charisma, no popularity and no political capacity,” says Margarita López Maya, a political analyst with the Central University of Venezuela....
...“There is growing frustration even within the [pro-government] chavista bases,” says Margarita López Maya, a historian at the Central University of Venezuela....
...This is part of their scheme to advance with their statist model, [it] is the practice of President Chávez that Maduro is now willing to use with any justification,” said Margarita López Maya, a historian...
...Margarita López Maya, a historian at the Central University of Venezuela, argues that it is essential for the opposition to remain united....
...Mejía may have the edge, but Medina still has a few tricks up his sleeve: not only does he have ample campaign resources, but his running mate is first lady Margarita Cedeño, which has clearly helped to...
...Now, he has postponed a major regional conference which he had been planning to host on July 5 on Margarita Island, off Venezuela’s northeast coast in the Caribbean....
...one of the country’s top hotels, the Hilton on Margarita island (having already nationalised the Caracas Hilton)....
...Margarita Island is well known to Col Gaddafi as he attended a summit for South American and African leaders there in 2009, during which he praised Mr Chávez “for having driven out the colonialists” as he...
...After a summit last weekend for African and South American leaders on the Venezuelan island of Margarita, the two leaders signed a document rejecting attempts to link terrorism to ”the legitimate struggle...
...The opposition held on to the most populous state, oil-rich Zulia, and Nueva Esparta, which includes the Caribbean resort island of Margarita,as well as taking the politically important state of Miranda....
...“I’m not convinced that the law can remove a politician’s right to run for office without a firm sentence,” said Margarita López Maya, a left-leaning political analyst....
...Margarita Lopez Maya, a sociologist who has studied La Pedrera for many years and says its problems could easily have been avoided, says the unwillingness of the residents to oppose Mr Chávez is hard to...
...Leaders from the region have gathered on Margarita Island off the Venezuelan coast in the Caribbean, where issues to be discussed include the construction of a 5,000-mile natural gas pipeline from Venezuela...
...Margarita López Maya, an academic, says it typifies the “intolerance” of certain aspects of his government....
...“The government is trying to create, very fast, a completely vertical structure that goes straight from Chávez to each communal council,” says Margarita López Maya of the Central University of Venezuela...
...Mr Correa flew to the Venezuelan island of Margarita yesterday for an energy summit with other South American leaders....
...weitzmanhal@yahoo.com Ethanol politics After all the controversy about biofuels in recent weeks, you might expect that this week’s Latin American energy summit on Margarita Island would be the stage for...
...On both initiatives there were mutterings about the president steering Brazil towards an elected dictatorship a la Venezuela of Hugo Chávez. This is probably guff....
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