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...“Maduro didn’t like him from the outset,” said Mariano de Alba, senior advocacy adviser at the International Crisis Group. “He was very close to Chávez but then started to lose relevance.”...
...The first thing you see as you enter is a poster of Hugo Chávez, the late anti-capitalist leader of Venezuela, and a table stacked with political leaflets....
...Although he has a 26 per cent approval rating, such exhortations draw only faint cheers from the red-clad supporters bussed in to hear him rant against figures such as Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister...
...Since Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was directly responsible for every appointment in the highly centralised Popular party, dealing with Spain’s twin political challenges is impossible while he remains in...
...While Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister, urged Latin American governments to respect his country’s investments in the region, Spain’s foreign minister, José García-Margallo, slammed the takeover...
...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”....
...The seizure of what was once the largest investment abroad by a Spanish company could hardly have come at a worse time for Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s current prime minister and successor to Mr Aznar as leader...
...The contest in Galicia a conservative bastion and the birthplace of Francisco Franco, the Spanish dictator, as well as the present Popular party leader, Mariano Rajoy had all the drama and suspense of the...
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