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...President did say on the campaign trail last year that he would be willing to meet with Chávez.) "It was good for Obama to see the reaction in Latin America" to the Univision interview, says Chávez's former ambassador to the U.S., Bernardo Alvarez. "Maybe now he'll consider what he can learn from a face-to-face with Chávez. He'd see a man with differences, yes, but also someone looking for the same things politically, like helping people who've been excluded." (See pictures of Barack Obama's nation of hope...
...Walsh says Chávez already has inordinate control over the nation's legislative and judicial branches. If, as most expect, Chávez moves now to radicalize his socialist project, he could enervate them even more. Chávez's former ambassador to the U.S., Bernardo Alvarez, disagrees: "Chávez has had every opportunity in the world the past 10 years to become a dictator, and he hasn't done it," he says. "Instead he's created a real democracy here for a change, and under him those institutions will continue to strengthen...
...limits, among other proposals. But even if Chávez fails a second time, few doubt he'll try again before 2012. Fans say he needs to complete his revolutionary goals. "He's leading a transformation of our society," says Chávez's former ambassador to the U.S., Bernardo Alvarez. "And we should let voters let him continue it." Foes, who have had violent, tear gas-soaked clashes with police during marches for the no vote in the past few weeks, say Chávez has an egomaniacal obsession with being President for life. "This isn't a constitutional...
...forward; Citgo did. (Sunoco has since set up a program that provides free heating oil to 1,100 residents in the Philadelphia area.) Admittedly, it was a chance for Chávez to showcase "one of our revolution's most important principles," as then Venezuelan Ambassador to the U.S. Bernardo Alvarez told TIME in 2006: "the redistribution of oil revenues, especially for the poor...
...Investigators say those taken into custody had been attempting to re-establish the authority of the Cupola to solidify the Mafia's power structure after a leadership vacuum had followed from the high-profile earlier arrests of Bernardo Provenzano and Salvatore Lo Piccolo. Leading anti-Mob magistrate Pietro Grasso said operations over the past few years have the Sicilian Mob, also known as Cosa Nostra, on its knees. Tuesday's roundup, Grasso said, "keeps it from getting...