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...“Today, a new [Hugo] Chávez emerges.”...
...Ricardo Sucre, a political scientist at the Central University of Venezuela, said events in the state “reinforce the image that this is not a trustworthy government”....
...Claims connected to the alleged corruption of the Chávez or Maduro regimes will be excluded, according to the paper....
...The latest person to benefit was the former head of Venezuelan intelligence, General Manuel Ricardo Figuera. Gen Figuera fled the country after taking part in a failed uprising on April 30....
...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....
...business people in Venezuela say the economic crisis in the South American nation has hastened moves by President Nicolás Maduro’s government away from the full-blooded socialism of his predecessor Hugo Chávez...
...Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse edited by the exceptional Harvard economists, Ricardo Hausmann and Francisco Rodríguez, offers insights by some of the best analysts on Venezuela....
...Media moguls were prominent on the new council: Ricardo Salinas Pliego of Grupo Azteca, Bernardo Gómez of Televisa and Olegario Vázquez Aldir of Grupo Imágen....
...It stands now at barely over a third of where it was when Hugo Chávez took power in 1999 and 30 per cent below a year ago....
...Two Goldman EM debt funds managed by Ricardo Penfold, the portfolio manager that did the 2017 PDVSA deal, are also among the industry’s best performers this year....
...Ricardo Hausmann speaks with us about the macroeconomic and humanitarian catastrophe in Venezuela....
...“What’s more, he doesn’t want to be like Chávez, or Trump, or that Nicaraguan thug Ortega,” he elaborated....
...Ricardo Hausmann Exchange controls and price controls were put in 2004. Chávez won re-election in 2006....
...In Venezuela, as much as $300bn has been lost over the past 17 years in the estimation of Jorge Giordani, a former planning minister and confidante of Hugo Chávez....
...I doubt that he is Mexico’s Hugo Chavez, so suspect that a victory for him would create an opportunity to buy, much as Lula's victory did. I also have a hunch that he may not win....
...His brother-in-law, Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann, slammed “the abuse and oppression of Venezuela’s dictatorship”. Detentions have become commonplace....
...First, because while most other oil exporters used the boom to put some money aside, former president Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013, used it to quadruple the foreign debt....
...The government is particularly sensitive to accusations of mistreating wildlife because under Chávez, who died in 2013, conservation was taken seriously....
...In that year, Venezuelans won a referendum allowing then-president Hugo Chavez to run again (it was his second referenda attempt)....
...“The problem is not money,” says Ricardo Paes de Barros, who helped design Brazil’s much-lauded social welfare scheme, Bolsa Família, and is chief economist at São Paulo’s Ayrton Senna Institute and professor...
...Posters of leftist icons such as revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara and late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez have been taken down from the palace walls....
...Former strongman Hugo Chávez built his rule on a narrative of socialist struggle against western imperialism and institutions like the IMF and World Bank....
...The coming implosion of the Venezuelan economy should prompt similar introspection — not at the IMF, which has been absent since its “expulsion” by President Hugo Chávez in 2007, but in China....
...When Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro took power two-and-a-half years ago, he inherited Hugo Chávez’s unshakeable commitment to service the country’s debts, and Venezuelan oil at over $110 a barrel....
...Ricardo Martinelli, the former Panamanian president and a supermarket tycoon, is under investigation over allegations of graft. Even “well managed” Chile is up to it....
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