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...Ch??vez has also poured the country's oil windfall into a New Deal's worth of social programs in Venezuela, including the first medical clinics that many dirt-poor Caracas barrios have ever seen--usually staffed by doctors from Cuba whom Castro sends in exchange for cut-rate oil. "I don't care if our doctors are from Mars," says Manuel Tejera, who is helping build a clinic and lay potable-water pipes in the La Vega barrio. "We feel more like real citizens here for once...
...Ch??vez is also a polarizing figure at home. Although his approval ratings are in the high 50s, there is growing impatience with the country's stubborn unemployment and violent crime. Teodoro Petkoff, an erstwhile socialist leader who is a campaign strategist for Ch??vez's main opponent in the December presidential election, Manuel Rosales, says Ch??vez's "21st century socialism" is only a short-term fix. "The real fight against poverty is a fight against unemployment," Petkoff says. Others complain that Ch??vez is a Castro wannabe who has subverted Venezuela's democratic institutions, especially the courts...
What may ultimately erode Ch??vez's stature are exactly the things that he has skillfully used to boost it. As the price of oil begins to fall, critics predict Ch??vez's radical influence will too. Some analysts believe that Mexico's leftist candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, narrowly lost the recent presidential race in large part because his conservative opponent painted him as a Ch??vez clone. The same thing happened a month earlier in presidential elections in Peru...
...Ch??vez considers his bravado his chief asset, but critics say it too often makes it hard to take him seriously as a statesman. While Ahmadinejad wowed U.S. audiences with his verbal dexterity last week, Ch??vez seemed only to enhance his reputation for gratuitous Bush baiting. After Ch??vez's speech at the General Assembly, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, called the performance "a comic-strip approach to international affairs." A product of Venezuela's llanos, or rural plains, Ch??vez patterns his style after the straight-talking llaneros (cowboys) he grew up with...
Yesterday the devil came here," Venezuelan leader Hugo Ch??vez said last week at the U.N. "It still smells of sulfur today." The one who allegedly left the satanic traces was George W. Bush, who addressed the General Assembly the day before. But in painting the Prez as the devil, Ch??vez put him in good company. The insult isn't new--Satan has apparently possessed people on both sides of the political aisle, in books, on TV and all over...