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...very corrupt Venezuela," says Juan Mejía, a head of the student movement that led the opposition to Chávez at the referendum. Indeed, it was Chávez's electrifying emergence that paved the way for the election in this decade of other leftist heads of state, like Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Argentina's Néstor Kirchner and Chile's Michelle Bachelet, even if Chávez affects to disdain their moderate, market-oriented socialism. Sunday's humbling results will make Chávez a less swaggering figure on the hemispheric scene, yet a little humility on?...
...Parkinson’s disease. Born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, he emigrated to the United States in 1960 to join the Harvard faculty. He was 78. Maybury-Lewis was a leader in the field of anthropology specializing in the study of indigenous people in the Americas. His work concentrated in Brazil and was recognized in 1997 with the Grand Cross of the Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil’s highest academic award. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Oxford University in 1952, followed by his Ph.D. in anthropology four years later. He observed the cultural survival of tribal...
...basic agenda: "There's no doubt he brought necessary changes to a very corrupt Venezuela," says Mejia. And the leftward, less U.S.-dependent turn he engineered in Latin American politics has ironically made the a more market-oriented model he professes to disdain more viable in countries like Brazil by making it more egalitarian. Sunday's humbling results will make Chávez a less swaggering figure on the hemispheric scene; but a little humility on his part may make his neighbors more receptive to initiatives like the Banco del Sur, or Bank of the South, meant to counterbalance traditional...
...fact, it was Chávez's electrifying emergence a decade ago that paved the way for the election in this decade of other, albeit more moderate leftist heads of state like Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Argentina's Nestor Kirchner and Chile's Michelle Bachelet. Venezuelans may be reminding Chávez that, like his revolution's namesake, 19th-century independence hero Simon Bolivar, he stands to have a positive place secured in Latin America history. Their message on Sunday: Don't blow...
...other actors' movies." He has built his global audience systematically: with each film, Smith introduces himself to a new people, often piggybacking on a local event that will attract worldwide attention. For Men in Black II, he toured in South Korea during the World Cup; for Hitch, he hit Brazil during carnival; for next year's fallen-superhero tale Hancock, he's trying to get into Beijing during the Olympics...