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...Chávez consolidated power, increased state control over the economy, boosted spending and cracked down on the opposition....
...Moisés NaímAbsolutely. And I was very concerned when I started seeing Donald Trump behaving like Hugo Chávez....
...Chavez will replace board director Robin Washington on the tech company’s audit and compliance committees....
...In Cuba, the largesse of the Soviet Union gave way to the generosity of Hugo Chávez’s now-bankrupt Venezuelan socialist petrostate....
...Well-off Venezuelans had begun spending more time in their Miami condos after Hugo Chávez became president in 1999, and later moved to Miami permanently....
...PetroCaribe, set up in 2005 by then-Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, allowed Caribbean nations to buy Venezuelan oil on favourable terms....
...Weary of two decades of Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution, families line the streets to glimpse the man who is challenging Mr Chávez’s heir, President Nicolás Maduro....
...The US revoked the visa of Asdrúbal Chavez, cousin of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez and chief executive officer of PDVSA’s US refining unit Citgo....
...Moisés Naím, a former Venezuelan trade minister who created the show for Sony Pictures Television, defends the series, saying “this is not a biopic, this is not a biography, this is fiction”....
...The creator is a former Venezuelan trade minister, Moisés Naím, who told the festival he came up with the idea after spending years trying to explain Chávez’s hold over Venezuelans to friends in the US....
...Instead, the continent may simply return to the “normal populism” that has characterised much of its history, says Moisés Naím of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace....
...“This is a tyranny, which has been very successful in disguising as a democracy, and has even allowed itself to lose an election,” said Moisés Naím, a former Venezuelan minister and fellow at the Carnegie...
...That’s not the case with today’s Venezuela,” says Moisés Naím a Venezuelan distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace....
...The answer is Hugo Chávez....
...In short, Moisés Naím is a political opponent of the current government, not the independent observer you present him as....
...Mr Maduro, who succeeded Hugo Chávez as president almost a year ago, has in turn accused his radical opponents of seeking to instigate – with US-backing – a “fascist” coup similar to the 2002 unrest that...
...Most informed observers doubt that Mr Chávez will be able to govern again....
...Millions of erstwhile Chávez supporters have abandoned him....
...Sir, In “Venezuela’s devaluation is another desperate Chávez move” (Comment, February 14), Moisés Naim writes that the bolivar has been devalued by 992 per cent since Hugo Chávez came to power....
...Moisés Naim, a former Venezuelan minister of trade and industry in the pre-Chávez years, wrote in the FT on Wednesday that the devaluation was driven by “love for ideas that should be long dead, and have...
...Moíses Naím, a foreign policy analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, cites the example of Brazil....
...More recently, Iran has made a diplomatic push into Latin America, conspicuously courting the friendship of Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s socialist president....
...“While commodity prices are high, he can be a Lula,” says Moisés Naím, a senior associate in the Carnegie Endowment think-tank’s economics programme in Washington, DC....
...(Latin America’s tart rejoinder might be, “promoting US policies that stop its citizens getting high”, as foreign policy maven Moisés Naim has suggested.)...
...Moisés Naím, editor of Foreign Policy magazine, makes a trenchant point. “Mr Lula da Silva has been very good to Brazilians, but very bad for millions of his neighbours,” he says....
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