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...Amorim said there would be a focus on reviving Unasur, the Union of South American Nations — a bloc originally formed by the late Venezuelan socialist leader Hugo Chávez to counterbalance US influence —...
...Opposition candidate Sergio Garrido easily won the contest for state governor in Barinas, taking 55.4 per cent in Sunday’s ballot to 41.3 per cent for government candidate Jorge Arreaza....
...Finally, the opposition settled on Sergio Garrido, a 54-year-old local politician. “They’ll invent any old excuse to make sure we don’t win the governorship,” Garrido told the Financial Times....
...Strongman rulers have unleashed extraordinary verbal attacks on critical media, with leaders such as Venezuela’s late Hugo Chávez and US president Donald Trump respectively describing the press as “enemies...
...The other members are Carlos Hank González, of Banorte; Sergio Gutiérrez of DeAcero; Miguel Rincón of Bio-Pappel; Daniel Chávez de Vidanta and Miguel Allemán of Interjet....
...these still beaten-up prices underscore the risks and the long path that lies ahead for Venezuela, even if this proves to be the beginning of the end of the “Chavismo” regime first established by Hugo Chávez...
...“Guaidó is the right man, in the right place at the right moment,” says Sergio Dahbar, a leading Venezuelan writer....
...“They both frighten me,” said Isabela Franco, a 21-year-old medical student, as she queued to vote on Sunday for Sergio Fajardo, one of the moderates who failed to make the run-off....
...“Peace is an opportunity, not an event,” says Sergio Jaramillo, the high commissioner for peace. That is particularly so for the young, who have the most at stake....
...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....
...Sérgio Moro, the federal judge commanding the prosecution in Brazil’s corruption probe, spoke with a heavy heart....
...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....
...Hugo Chávez, Mr Maduro’s predecessor, frequently clashed with Polar but pulled back from nationalisation as inefficient state management could exacerbate food shortages....
...Key to the final result, though, may be Sergio Massa, a former cabinet secretary under Ms Fernández who has split from the government....
...But Caracas never put a cent into it: even the anti-capitalist Chávez was put off by its escalating costs, former Petrobras executives joke....
...More centrist Peronist politicians, such as Sergio Massa, the ambitious mayor of Tigre and a former Ms Fernández adviser, are already jostling for position....
...a third term, Ms Fernández will be denied the chance to follow in the footsteps of other Latin American populist leaders who extended their rule through constitutional changes, such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez...
...But Sergio Berensztein, a pollster, says the fact that Ms Fernández cannot be re-elected to a third term, which became crystal clear after last weekend’s midterm elections, alters Argentina’s political horizon...
...Sergio Fajardo, governor of Antioquia For visitors who walk into his office for the first time, it is a shock to find Sergio Fajardo sitting in a wooden university chair, writes Andres Schipani....
...“Her popularity has fallen from 70 per cent to 36 per cent in 10 months,” Sergio Berensztein, a political commentator and head of polling group Poliarquía, said....
...The fact that many of Univision’s viewers are struggling economically helps explain their loyalty to its news service, says Sergio Bendixen, a pollster who was first commissioned by the network in 1985,...
...“I wish Chávez would spend a bit more time dealing with problems at home, rather than wasting time and money abroad which don’t make much difference to me,” said Sergio Romero, a bus driver from Caracas,...
...The biggest opponent for Colombia’s left at present was Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s leftist president, Mr Pardo said. “Mr Chavez is the most unpopular man in Colombia.”...
...Seeing the officials deemed responsible being upbraided in a style reminiscent of Venezuela’s impulsive president, Hugo Chávez, was unnerving....
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