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...going to do—what can you offer to recover the lost ground among Hispanics?” The candidates duly recited their talking points, and assured the moderators that they didn’t hate Hispanics. They broached some substantive topics—the Cuba embargo, Hugo Chavez??s socialist regime in Venezuela—but once again, why couldn’t they discuss these issues in a debate on foreign policy? Only Hispanics care about Chavez? Only blacks care about crime...
...went too far away from the Venezuelan median voter in asking for what is essentially the elimination of any checks and balances on his power,” Hausmann said. Government professor Steven R. Levitsky said the proposed amendments alienated core Chavistas, such as Raúl Baduel, one of Chavez??s closest military allies who recently retired and joined the opposition. Food shortages also may have contributed to civil discontent. Still, Hausmann said that he thought it made sense for Chavez to seek more constitutional power now rather than later, since he is still benefiting from the momentum...
...most definitely not alone, for he has actively funded his ideological allies to allow them to take power across the region, especially when America remains disengaged. Evo Morales in Bolivia, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, the everlasting Castro in Cuba, and Kirchner in Argentina have all benefited from Chavez??s petrodollars in the form of infrastructure deals, bond buy-outs, and outright gifts. And yet, even for self-declared neo-socialists like the Venezuelan president, there is no such thing as a free lunch. With different degrees of support, all these leaders are involved...
...tour of the University of São Paulo’s equivalent of University Hall—invaded by students and barred to the press—after a fifteen-minute argument with a socialist student named Duarte who tried to convince me of the democracy of Hugo Chavez??s closing of Radio Caracas Televisión. I watched with amused befuddlement as my host father dug into his hunk of watermelon with gusto and a knife and fork...
...fatigues have created a larger-than-life image that will almost certainly outlive him. America has hoped for years that Castro’s death will leave a vacuum that the U.S. can fill with some of that democracy we’re so good at implementing. Unfortunately, if Chavez??s rise to power is any indication, things may not go according to plan.Where PRC President Hu Jintao is quiet and withdrawn in public, Chavez takes a slightly different approach, calling President George W. Bush “the Devil” in a speech at the United...