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...El Salvador: municipal elections. UK: annual rail fares increase comes into force....
...“Today, a new [Hugo] Chávez emerges.” Read more about El Salvador’s president plan to run for a prohibited second term here....
...“Today, a new [Hugo] Chávez emerges.”...
...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....
...Well-off Venezuelans had begun spending more time in their Miami condos after Hugo Chávez became president in 1999, and later moved to Miami permanently....
...Fidel Castro had been in power in Cuba since 1959, but the election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1998 marked the first real change....
...Venezuela has an almost unbridgeable gulf between supporters of Mr Maduro and his mentor Hugo Chávez, and the democratic opposition....
...“There is a fantasy that Argentina is a rich country,” says Rodrigo Zarazaga, a priest and political scientist, as he gestures out of his window in the ornate Colegio del Salvador Jesuit school in downtown...
...In the 1960s and 1970s, the Cuban revolution and the Chilean government of Salvador Allende were lionised....
...Joaquín Villalobos, a former El Salvador guerrilla leader who advises Colombia’s government, does not believe that will happen. El Salvador “had no organised crime before [its] war”, he says....
...Other news Residents on both sides of the US-Mexico border seek to reconcile a rise in violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, with a US administration that has made cracking down on legal and...
...With a soft spot for Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, he does little to dispel fears Honduras would lurch left if the Alliance wins....
...Hugo Chávez is the nightmare of Colombia’s oligarchs!”...
...CELAC, a Latin American regional bloc, convened a meeting in El Salvador to discuss the Venezuelan crisis but seven of its 33 member states, including Brazil, Mexico and Peru, stayed away, ensuring it failed...
...Hence the sympathy towards Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the reluctance to condemn Islamist terrorism, and the blind insistence that Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela was a success story....
...Factory production takes place in El Salvador, where the company employs former members of the country’s notorious criminal gangs and provides them with education....
...Chavez comes from the military....
...But unlike Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis – and to many Venezuelans, the late Hugo Chávez – if President Nicolás Maduro and his acolytes finally jump off the cliff, they won’t leave as heroes....
...In a tweet hinting at defeat two hours before polls closed in congressional elections on Sunday, Venezuela’s vice-presidency praised Salvador Allende, the former Marxist president of Chile, for forging ahead...
...It is also a pity that Hobsbawm never visited Venezuela, so there are no pithy observations on the spectacular degeneration of Hugo Chávez’s revolution into today’s corrupt free-for-all....
...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....
...As in Panama and El Salvador, dollarisation has brought Ecuador financial stability since it was established in 2000....
...Jorge Torres Chávez’s lasso orbits impossibly around the lead couple like a symbol of undying love....
...In that sense, the deaths are just more statistics in a country with one of highest murder rates in the world, up there with Honduras, El Salvador, Ivory Coast and Jamaica....
...It does not seek “revolutionary” transformation through statist policies such as nationalisations of the kind instigated in Venezuela by Hugo Chávez, the late president....
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