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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....
...In the past, in the earlier Lula administrations, its stance vis-à-vis Chávez was ambiguous at best....
...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...
...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...
...founded by Mr Maduro’s predecessor, the late Hugo Chávez, is popularly known....
...He added, in a time-honoured tactic, that this is yet another international attempt to discredit the socialist crusade launched by the late Hugo Chávez....
...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....
...The unstressed historical context is the dying days of Hugo Chávez. A city in anticipatory mourning; shaven heads in the streets; what sound like doleful firecrackers....
...His lasting significance is to have presided over the continued ossification of Venezuela’s two-party democratic system, so paving the way for the explosive rise of the radical socialist Hugo Chávez....
...That prompted William Castillo, head of Venezuela’s telecoms regulator, Conatel, to say Venezuela was now the victim of an “electronic war”....
...Indeed, when the hacienda’s last owner, the pious Dona Catalina Mexia del Castillo died in 1669, she bequeathed Chuao to the slaves who worked there on condition that they stayed and grew cacao....
...Jesús Ernesto Chávez Castillo, also known as “the camel”, was the leader of the Aztecas, an enforcer gang in Ciudad Jua´rez employed by the armed wing of the notorious Jua´rez cartel, federal police said...
...Many Venezuelans place the blame squarely on Mr Chávez’s shoulders....
...“Too many innocent people have paid the price for a fight that isn’t theirs,” said Isabel Castillo, director for the chamber of commerce in San Antonio del Tachira, on the Colombian border....
...“This will not stop the process of extradition that we have initiated,” said Jorge del Castillo, Peru’s prime minister....
...Chávez´s election At first glance, a new opinion poll by Alfredo Keller, the pollster, in Venezuela seems to suggest that Hugo Chávez could actually lose December´s presidential election....
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