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...Rebecca Bill Chávez, president of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, believes that measuring Latin America’s leaders on a traditional political axis is outmoded....
...But the change in consumer perceptions is more recent.It is partly to do with Marta Ortega, daughter of founder Amancio Ortega and the company’s non-executive chair since last year, who has helped launch...
...In Nicaragua, authoritarian Daniel Ortega has imprisoned and exiled hundreds of his political opponents and critics....
...“Today, a new [Hugo] Chávez emerges.”...
...What happened next was reminiscent of Nicaragua, where President Daniel Ortega imprisoned and disqualified his main opponents in the run-up to recent elections....
...A Cuban-trained doctor who was barred from running himself because of a corruption conviction, Cerrón was the author of a notorious manifesto that praised Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and Hugo Chávez and Nicolás...
...Perón, Chávez, Ortega: here, crowd-pleasing caudillos rule. Step forward Jair Bolsonaro, the latest in this colourful yet contentious tradition....
...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...
...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....
...Indeed, Evo Morales in Bolivia remains anchored to power; so does Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, Dési Bouterse in Suriname, and Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela....
...Venezuela once had around 200 tonnes of bullion in European banks but Mr Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez, ordered most of it repatriated....
...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...
...It has been a bad week for Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez, Brazil’s controversial new education minister....
...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....
...“The same thing happened with Evo Morales in Bolivia or with [Daniel] Ortega in Nicaragua. Today, from here, the PAN is warning of the risks,” he added....
...One of the last survivors of the leftist “pink tide” that spawned Chávez in Venezuela, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and Rafael Correa in Ecuador, he should have stepped aside already: the constitution he approved...
...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....
...Carmen Ortega says that as a single mother she would be at a loss without the support that comes from Padre Willy. “I don’t know what to say. I get help here, but not from anywhere else.”...
...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....
...With leftist icons Fidel Castro of Cuba and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez dead, Mr Ortega is the last in a generation of Latin American revolutionaries still clinging to power....
...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....
...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....
...As well as these costs to life, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua have much in common as members of a gaseous project that Hugo Chávez called “21st century socialism”....
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