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Although a rising Venezuelan radical may hardly register on the radar of post-Cold War Washington, Hugo Chavez may soon make his presence felt with regular Americans - at the gas pump. Chavez, elected president last November by an overwhelming majority, is moving quickly to consolidate control of his nation?s political institutions, and from there to use the nation?s considerable oil revenues to finance populist spending. This may sound merely like some improbable '60s flashback, but Venezuela?s state-owned oil company is the largest oil supplier to the U.S., and that ?- together with Chavez?s attempts to breathe...
CARACAS: Good thing oil is cheap. Six years after he led an abortive military coup, left-wing populist Hugo Chavez was elected president of Venezuela, the largest supplier of oil to the U.S. "U.S. oil companies are worried that Chavez plans to move the country's economy away from free markets," says TIME reporter Christina Hoag. "He's said a lot of contradictory things and nobody knows where he actually stands." The president-elect was certainly not doing much to clarify his plans late Sunday: "In truth, I'm not Chavez," he told reporters. "Chavez is a national feeling; Chavez...
...decisive victory is a sign of widespread popular anger at corruption and poverty in the oil-rich state. "Although he plans a referendum on changing the constitution, his economic policy will have to be more moderate," says Hoag. "Today's reality no longer allows for leftist economics." Washington denied Chavez an entry visa a year ago, but has said it would work with him if elected. After all, Chavez is just a feeling...
...November 1997, students voted to return grapes to the dining halls. In 1992 students had demanded an HDS moratorium on the purchase of table grapes following a nation-wide boycott inspired by union leader Cesar Chavez...
...reasons why Cesar Chavez began the third boycott in 1984 are still valid--nothing has changed," said Mark Grossman, director of the press division of Chavez's union, the United Farm Workers...