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...“We’re stupid — we let ourselves be mistreated,” says Zenaida Chávez, whose daughter Linda Olguín Chávez went back to her abusive partner, only to be stabbed to death, her throat cut, in 2014....
...“We need guarantees,” says Vladimir Ruiz, who joined the Farc when he was 10 years old....
...Henry Ruíz, a former member of the military junta co-ordinated by Mr Ortega that ruled after 1979, puts it more bluntly....
...Mexico’s 2014 decision to cancel a $3.7bn contract was made to ensure “absolute clarity, legitimacy and transparency”, transport minister Gerardo Ruiz Esparza said....
...Staring into the lush hills overlooking Caracas, Jorge Ruiz del Vizo remembers what happened five years ago....
...At the end, there is a vivid portrait of Hugo Chávez, a classic Latin American strongman brought into the modern age by Twitter and high production television techniques....
...The biggest opponent for Colombia’s left at present was Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s leftist president, Mr Pardo said. “Mr Chavez is the most unpopular man in Colombia.”...
...“I have to be very prudent, because I am not Mr Chávez’s best friend,” says Mr Santos. “I have said that you could elect Mother Teresa as president of Colombia and Mr Chávez would pick a fight anyway....
...Among those lined up as possible successors are Uribistas Noemí Sanín, Andrés Felipe Arias, Rodrigo Rivera and Juan Manuel Santos, Sergio Fajardo, the centrist independent who turned around the fortunes...
...Costa Rica does not gain a thing by criticising Hugo Chávez. It only loses.”...
...Mr Ruiz is unpopular in Oaxaca....
...But Buenos Aires is not about to sign up as the latest member of Mr Chávez’s 21st century socialism club....
...Alvaro Ruiz-Navajas, Manchester, UK Richard Lapper: I think they are pretty limited in the sense that the Cold War did actually involve a stand-off between two superpowers and there was always the threat...
...There can be no mistaking President Hugo Chávez’s intentions to reduce his dependence on the US market....
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