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...Human rights lawyer Rocío San Miguel was arrested last month while members of her family briefly went missing. Caracas also expelled all staff at the UN Human Rights Commission....
...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.”...
...José Miguel Vivanco, who is stepping down as head of Human Rights Watch’s Americas division after 28 years, said the Trump phenomenon “has provided ammunition and inspiration for the wrong side in Latin...
...Mr Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez then led a failed coup in 1992. After he became president, Mr Chávez himself survived a 2002 coup attempt....
...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....
...The oil price boom helped Mr Chávez finance his revolution but also provided ample opportunities for fraud....
...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....
...Néstor Reverol also served as interior minister under Mr Maduro’s predecessor, the late Hugo Chávez, writes the FT’s Andres Schipani....
...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....
...“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....
...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....
...He says, however, that everything started to change when Hugo Chávez, the late president, rose to power in the late 1990s....
...The rapprochement began as back-channel talks two years ago, shortly after Hugo Chávez died of cancer....
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