Word: chavezes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wednesday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is supposed to answer hundreds of thousands of opponents who marched through Caracas last week and gave him an ultimatum: either resign, call an early referendum on your presidency, or face a massive general business and labor strike this month. But Chavez, whose radical left-wing demagoguery has violently polarized the oil-rich nation, can probably afford to ignore the call - and not just because most of Venezuela's poor, who make up 80% of the population, are on his side. Chavez has another, albeit unlikely ally for the moment: George W. Bush...
...Before the U.S. began moving toward war with Iraq this past summer, Bush and Chavez were hardly amigos. In fact, Chavez lost any chance of winning a chummy nickname from Bush two years ago when, during a visit to Iraq, he called Saddam Hussein "my brother." Chavez's red beret - the symbol of his "revolution," which he wears with the Yanqui-baiting swagger of Che Guevara - didn't help. Nor does the way Chavez taunts his U.S.-friendly opposition, which nearly toppled him last April in a coup, an uprising Chavez supporters accuse the Bush Administration of covertly encouraging...
...Verbatim "We go from summit to summit but our peoples go from abyss to abyss." HUGO CHAVEZ, President of Venezuela, discussing the failings of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg...
...months that ended March 31, Harvard's Joint Center reports. Some of the money came from stocks. But most was borrowed against homeowners' record $6.7 trillion of equity. Home has never been sweeter. "It's good to invest in your house, to fix it up," says Patricia Chavez, 40, who lives with her husband and three children in Moreno Valley, Calif. The Chavezes just borrowed $20,000 against the house, partly to pay off high-interest credit cards. "The price of homes going up has truly benefited us. Otherwise, we'd be drowning," she says...
...beautiful and painful. How did we get from there to here? This country somehow gave life to Maria Tallchief and Ted Bundy, to Geronimo and Joe McCarthy, to Nathan Bedford Forrest and Toni Morrison, to the Declaration of Independence and Executive Order No. 1066, to Cesar Chavez and Richard Nixon, to theme parks and national parks, to smallpox and the vaccine for smallpox...