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...The former president has drawn in new billionaires including Tim Mellon of the Mellon banking family, Texas oil titans Kelcy Warren and Tim Dunn, Phil Ruffin, owner of the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino,...
...Others ponying up to co-chair the event include sugar tycoon Pepe Fanjul, casino magnates Steve Wynn and Phil Ruffin, World Wrestling Entertainment co-founder Linda McMahon and conservative megadonors Robert...
...But independent observers questioned the official turnout figure of 10.5mn — which if true would exceed the number who voted for Maduro’s popular predecessor Hugo Chávez in the presidential election of 2012...
...Phil Gunson, Venezuela analyst at the International Crisis Group, a think-tank, described Garrido’s victory as “a boost to those in the opposition who back a strategy that includes electoral participation...
...His “habit of speaking the unvarnished truth made him essentially unelectable in a land of plausible liars,” wrote Phil Gunson, senior analyst at the International Crisis Group in Caracas....
...But there is an opportunity for change and there are clear signs of defections from within Chavismo,” referring to the socialist movement founded by Mr Maduro’s predecessor, the late Hugo Chávez....
...Mr Maduro might use his re-election to purge rivals within “Chavismo”, the movement founded by his late mentor Hugo Chávez....
...One evening as I attempt to record an interview with Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera for my Radio 4 show, Front Row, we are interrupted by the sound of monks chanting....
...Hugo Chavez returns to power What does Hugo Chavez’s return to power in Venezuela mean for his country, for Latin America, and for international politics?...
...Hugo Chavez returns to power What does Hugo Chavez's return to power in Venezuela mean for his country, for Latin America, and for international politics?...
...“But as far as we’re concerned,” he said, “the support [for Chávez] is 70 per cent. That’s what we perceive in the street.”...
...Mr Chávez has been lobbying intensively to win a two-year term on the Security Council....
...By Phil Gunson in Caracas He rails against globalisation, but few political leaders are more global than Venezuela’s peripatetic leftwing President Hugo Chávez, who this weekend returned from his second...
...“The NAM is a political forum but not a movement, because its members do not act as a bloc,” said Phil Peters, vice-president of the Virginia-based Lexington Institute policy group....
...Mr Alvarez was speaking at a ceremony in the National Assembly at which he handed over draft legislation prepared by the office of President Hugo Chávez....
...“Castro may be 80 years old but he is still making strategic moves,” says Phil Peters, at the Virginia-based Lexington Institute think-tank....
...After quoting a Venezuelan folk ballad about an especially thorny tree, Mr Chávez warned the Mexican president: “Don’t mess with me, or you’ll get pricked.”...
...Mr Brownfield pleaded the other day, after reeling off a list of more than a dozen of Mr Chávez’s accusations....
...If an advanced democracy were to elect someone like Hugo Chavez, he could certainly pursue the latter’s policies for a while. Of course, it would be ruinous to do so....
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