Word: chavezes
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...gringo Fourth Fleet for help to defend your port.' HUGO CHAVEZ, Venezuelan President, referring to the U.S. naval group while taunting a governor and political rival; Chávez ordered his navy to seize seaports in Venezuelan states with major oil-exporting installations...
...challenges may be slightly different in Latin America from those faced in Europe. The main challenge facing the progressive governments of this region is not right-wing laissez faire capitalism, but the more populist socialism epitomized by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. "Sometimes the adversary of progressive ideas can be populist ideas," said Rudy deLeon from the Center for American Progress in Washington, perhaps with Chavez in mind. "And in a time of economic challenge that can be an issue...
...guerrilla chief Schafik Handal - and went on to be crushed by the ARENA incumbent. This time, the right-wing party managed to narrow Funes' early lead in the polls by painting him, often maliciously, as a puppet of the more radical Latin left led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The Chavez gambit may have helped defeat the leftist candidate in Mexico's presidential election in 2006, but it didn't work in El Salvador on Sunday - chiefly because Funes successfully painted himself as an ally of the more moderate Latin left headed by Brazil's President Luiz...
...those tired of the Bush vs. Chavez polarization that has mired the Americas of late, it was an apt coincidence that Lula had been huddling at the White House a day before the Salvadoran vote with the hemisphere's other alpha moderate, President Barack Obama. Funes had identified himself with the spirit of the pragmatic, bipartisan Lula left in his campaign and met with the Brazilian a number of times. He hit the stump not in the lefty-red attire favored by FMLN leaders (and by Chavez) but in white guayabera shirts. He also assuaged voter fears by convincing...
...Latin American leaders are willing to work with President Obama. Even President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has been overwhelmingly positive, saying that, “If he wants to converse with the Venezuelans, we are here at the order without conditions.†And, in a recent letter to Obama, 300 regional experts wrote that “U.S. prestige in the region is now at a historic low… Our hope is that you will embrace the opportunity to inaugurate a new period of hemispheric understanding and collaboration for the common welfare...