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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a new best friend this morning: television evangelist Pat Robertson. With his astonishing call for the left-wing leader's assassination last night-"I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it...We have the ability to take him out"-Robertson will have surely made Chavez an even more popular anti-yanqui icon in Venezuela, Latin America and around the world. Like his mentor Fidel Castro, Chavez thrives on threats from the U.S., real or perceived. He has long insisted that his foes are plotting to kill him, and this summer...
...Chavez is no doubt a source of concern for Washington, if only because Venezuela is America's fourth-largest foreign oil supplier. Chavez's erratic and often bellicose anti-U.S. rhetoric-he publicly called Bush an "ass____" in Spanish last year-as well as his desire to sell less oil to the U.S. and more to ideological allies like China, are hardly comforting as gas nears $3 per gallon. But neither is Chavez's embrace of nations like Iran, and nor is the fact that he's leading a politically potent (and, to the Bush Administration, potentially destabilizing) wave...
...rest of my Harvard experience will be filled with noise,” Leverett House resident Yomari Chavez ’07 told a group of 19 students who met earlier this month to plan a strategy for bringing their concerns to University administrators’ attention...
...other Miguel Contreras is a brilliant and passionate individual who dragged himself out of poverty and never stopped fighting for the nation’s poor. He’s the Contreras who began working as an agricultural worker at age five, the Contreras who so impressed Cesar Chavez that he was asked to work for the United Farm Workers at age 17. He’s the Contreras who worked his way up the labor movement hierarchy and ended by uniting L.A.’s fractured union movement, building bridges across race and class barriers and winning significant...
...received $11.5 million more from the team last season. The Angels note that Anaheim is still in the title. A trial is set for November; an injunction to revert to the former name until then has already been rejected (and is under appeal). "The name change stinks," says Nancy Chavez, 52, a 15-year season ticketholder from Orange County who seriously considered dropping her ticket package this year. "We are not L.A. It's a slap in the face...