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...prove hard to hang on with so little support from businessmen and her former Cabinet members. The Philippines may avoid a nonconstitutional overthrow like a military coup or another People Power revolt if Arroyo chooses to surrender power to her Vice President, former news broadcaster Noli de Castro. But De Castro, who served as a Senator before becoming Vice President last year, is best known to the public for his television career, not for accomplishments in office. "If De Castro takes over," says Asiri Abubakar, a political-science professor at the University of the Philippines' Asian Center, "at best...
Hearing that bluster, one might assume that Chávez fancies himself a 21st century Fidel Castro. Chávez does idolize Castro, rarely missing an opportunity to be seen with the Cuban leader--like last week, when, with Castro at his side, he announced a regional "solidarity" fund to give cash-strapped Caribbean countries cheaper access to Venezuelan oil. Although Chávez was democratically elected, he flirts with autocracy. And he indulges in Castroesque paranoia about the U.S.: This summer Venezuelan civilians are training alongside the army in antiaircraft and antitank warfare so they will be able to thwart the next...
...that, Chávez is not, so far, a dictator. But he has one thing that Castro did not, and that is why his rhetoric is being taken more seriously from the barrios of Caracas to the hallways of Washington. Chávez controls the hemisphere's largest oil reserves and is the U.S.'s fourth largest foreign supplier. As oil prices hit $60 per bbl. this summer, his government reaped a multibillion-dollar windfall. Chávez has used that, and his rising prestige in the region, to lead a political shift in Latin America that is buzzing like a Che Guevara...
...Journal, it's important to note, was a Republican paper. Today, when Lincoln is the favorite of everyone from George W. Bush to Mario Cuomo (not to mention Fidel Castro), it is easy to forget how partisan his memory once was. In the late 19th century, a kind of cult of Lincoln grew up among the party faithful, with banquets on his birthday as a rite, while Southerners licked their wounds and Democrats rebuilt an organization that had been split...
...Arroyo's enemies say they are no longer content just to see her step down. If she did so, her Vice President and party colleague Noli de Castro, a former news broadcaster new to public office, would become President. But that would not bring the sort of change those opposed to Arroyo want to see. That may be why there's so much talk of revolution and a new political structure for the Philippines: a national governing council, a civilian junta, or a strongman general and a politician ruling in tandem. When Arroyo goes, her enemies say, the country...