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...event, it's likely that the tanks will stay in Kenya. "There has been a lot of controversy on where the military tanks were destined," committee chairman Adan Keynan said Friday. "To ensure accountability to the Kenyan people, the Ministry of State for Defense should ensure that the clearing process is open and transparent. Kenyans want to know the end user of the cargo...
...comparison. That paradox is most visible at sites like the University of the Andes in the western city of Merida. In generations past, the school was an incubator for many of the Marxists who now occupy Chávez's government, including Chávez's older brother Adan. But this past week it was the setting for one of many scenes of violent standoffs between anti-Chávez students and the national guard...
...urban centers like Caracas and Maracaibo. In those areas, Chávez, to his credit, has spent billions on long-overdue social projects. But violent crime has nonetheless reached horrific levels, basic services like trash collection seem to have collapsed, and corruption is growing. Chávez, whose brother Adan defeated a breakaway Chavista candidate last week for the governorship of Chávez's home state of Barinas, insisted Sunday there is "no Chavista dissidence" and that "those who betray Chávez die politically...
...United Socialist Party (PSUV) did pick up 17 of 22 state governorships, including Chávez's home state of Barinas, on Venezuela's poor llanos, or plains, where the president's brother Adan held off a strong challenge from a breakaway Chávista candidate. The PSUV also took about two-thirds of the total national vote and kept the opposition from winning the seven or eight states it needed to stun Chávez. If the radical, anti-U.S. firebrand showed anything, it's that his red-beret power and popularity are relatively intact...
...Elena recounted how, as a kid, Hugo sold papaya candies made by his grandmother, who raised him and Adan, to help support the family. She said it shamed him to see friends whose families had nothing, and that was why he emphasizes social programs as President. "I continue with the same humbleness," she says. "In my heart I'm the same humble woman as before. Of course I have to change my clothes. I have to put on clothes more appropriate for the position. But I feel that I'm the same. Humble. If it weren't that way then...