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...The party’s founder, Vladimir Cerrón, names Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega and Fidel and Raúl Castro in Cuba among a select “group of presidents who gave the continent...
...He is always invoking the military, always speaking for the military,” says Raul Jungmann, a veteran centre-left politician who was defence minister in the previous government of Michel Temer....
...At the UNHCR centre, no one has a good word to say about Mr Maduro — even those who supported his predecessor and mentor Hugo Chávez....
...Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela by Raúl Gallegos, a former correspondent with the Wall Street Journal in Caracas, and now the sharp Venezuela analyst at the consultancy Control Risks....
...At the core of Latin American populism, he says (also seen in the rhetoric of other leaders such as Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez), is an idea that “the poor are the custodians of a pure...
...Raúl Castro, 86, stood down as president of Cuba and was replaced by Miguel Díaz-Canel, 57, the vice-president....
...The US really doesn’t have to do much,” says Raul Gallegos, a Venezuela analyst at Control Risks....
...generate fresh violence.” —————- 2003-2011: All-out war July 2003-May 2006: Some 30,000 paramilitaries, members of the rightwing United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia, are demobilisedAugust 2007 Hugo Chávez...
...The Venezuelan military has long enjoyed a cosy relationship with government, ever since one of its own — Hugo Chávez — rose to power in the late 1990s....
...Raul Gallegos of consultancy Control Risks, author of a book on Venezuela called Crude Nation, said foreign companies would nonetheless be prepared to “sit tight” through the turbulence, to retain access...
...“Maduro will resume and deepen [former President Hugo] Chávez’s original socialist ideas to further weaken private property rights,” he predicted....
...Chávez himself survived a recall referendum in 2004....
...At his life’s end, although bolstered by the emergence of a few new friends such as the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, he was assailed by foreign governments and human rights groups and spurned by many...
.... ———————————- Aug 2007 Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez offers to broker a hostage swap — including three US contractors and French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt —- between the Farc and Colombian...
...Chávez was himself forced to extend Easter by three days to save energy....
...Fidel Castro, 90, has retired, and his brother and successor Raúl Castro, 85, has begun gradual economic reforms to Cuba’s Soviet-style economy under the rubric “without hurry but without pause”....
...But while friendly governments in Brazil and Bolivia are wrestling with corruption-related scandals, and Venezuela’s ally Raúl Castro is due to shake hands with US President Barack Obama in Havana this month...
...Then Hugo Chávez followed. Now the latest ageing revolutionary to slip into something comfortable is Colombian rebel leader Rodrigo Londoño, best known by his nom de guerre, Timochenko....
...Chávez bequeathed an economy on the ropes to his successor, Nicolás Maduro....
...Last week, Raúl Castro launched into a long speech against the US....
...A few years ago he went to Cuba to interview Raúl Castro, and also visited Venezuela several times, where he struck up a friendship with the late Hugo Chávez....
...Two years ago Mr Giordani, chief economic adviser to the late Hugo Chávez, estimated that insider access to subsidised hard currency had cost the country more than $25bn, equivalent to almost 15 per cent...
...Geopolitically, the Pope’s visit may have raised some eyebrows a few years ago, especially in the US, but the recent detente between Barack Obama and Raúl Castro in Cuba — which was brokered by the Vatican...
...Though the summit ran over by about five hours, as garrulous Latin American leftist leaders over-ran their allotted times — Raúl Castro spoke for a marathon 49 minutes, joking that Cuba was owed extra time...
...It was not a Castro or Hugo Chávez-style charisma but a quiet authority and a demonstrable ability to get results that had persuaded his men and women fighters to invest their trust in him....
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