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...victory over an attempt to recall him in a 2004 referendum - were all recognized by credible international observers; and that conferred on him a democratic legitimacy that helped blunt accusations by his enemies, especially the U.S., that he was a would-be dictator in the mold of Fidel Castro...
...since 1999 and his current term ends in 2013.) But considering that developed countries like France still allow unlimited presidential re-election, as the U.S. once did, that's likely an exaggeration. Bernardo Alvarez, Venezuela's ambassador to the U.S., argues that the democratically elected Chávez, unlike Fidel Castro in Cuba, will still have to face elections to remain in power. "The opposition is trying to conjure all the old Cold War fears, that Chávez is going to take your home, your business, your children," says Alvarez. "We do believe capitalism is a system based on inequality...
...highlights of his posting was the day Fidel Castro introduced him to cigars. It was in September 1972, he recalls, at a trade fair in Santiago. The Cuban exhibitors needed refrigerators for their shrimp. Brabeck lent them some. When the fair opened, Castro came over with a box of smokes to say thank you. But the Cuban leader's biggest gift, Brabeck says, was to warn Allende of the problems Cuba had encountered when it nationalized milk. That gave Nestle valuable breathing space...
...while Castro-Wright and his team plan the Wal-Mart of the future, the company's legal team has been fighting the same old ugly labor battles. Wal-Mart has been tarred by an ongoing gender-discrimination class action filed in California in 2001, and it recently was ordered to pay $62 million in penalties on top of the $78.5 million judgment awarded by a jury last year after it found Wal-Mart guilty of shortchanging associates in Pennsylvania who worked during their breaks or after they clocked out. (Wal-Mart says it will appeal.) Nor has it looked...
Another issue is more basic: absolute size. "One of the difficulties that we face at Wal-Mart is scale, the fact that we have so many stores. Getting execution across all stores is difficult," says Castro-Wright. Any big change is difficult for large corporations. To change so many things, as Wal-Mart is doing, is asking...