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...bloody civil wars, defeated Otton Solis of the Citizen?s Action Party by just 1.1%, one of the closest margins in Costa Rica?s history, and he garnered only 40.9% of the total vote. Solis-who was backed by the radical and increasingly popular left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez-opposes Costa Rica?s entrance into the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) with...
...Clarification: In the article "Dodging a Bullet in Costa Rica", TIME described presidential election runner-up Otton Solis as having been "backed by the radical and increasingly popular left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez." While the Chavez government favored Solis' candidacy, Solis insists he distanced himself during his campaign from Chavez's more radical anti-U.S. policies. As Solis himself wrote in an email to TIME, "I am sure you know that I have been highly critical of Chavez populism and gut antagonism towards the USA. It seems that you have fallen into the cold war extremist?s view...
Political tensions between Venezuela and the U.S. have been running high for years but now they?ve gone sky-high. Late Thursday, the government of left-wing President Hugo Chavez announced it would slash the number of flights to and from Venezuela offered by U.S. airlines-significantly trimming flights by American Airlines and banning those by Delta and Continental entirely. The policy goes into effect on March 30th...
...difficult to decipher where the technical merits of each side?s argument end and the raw political motives begin. The Bush Administration considers Chavez a threat to stability in the region, while Chavez is a loudly outspoken U.S. critic who calls Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" and says that the U.S. is poised to either assassinate him or invade Venezuela for its oil reserves...
...latest tit-for-tat spat appears to be the aviation equivalent of diplomatic expulsions. As Chavez?s cult of personality grows inside Venezuela and Latin America, the Bush Administration is increasingly trying to paint him as a region-destabilizing dictator. This month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the U.S. needs to form a "united front" against Chavez as he seeks re-election later this year. Statements like this one have given Venezuela even more impetus to regard the FAA?s continued stance as political. And this latest fiasco may just be indicative of larger conflicts ahead...