Word: chavismo
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...candidate." Former Chávez Information Minister Andrés Izarra says fear that an opposition leader could win the next presidential race if Chávez isn't in the running will rev up the Chavista machine on Feb. 15. "The base will see Chavismo more directly at risk than it was in 2007. This time it will mobilize," says Izarra. Chávez warns that an opposition victory in 2012 would prompt...
...stop thinking about the Bolivarian Revolution as a one-man show and start cultivating other leaders." Alberto Barrera, co-author of another biography, Hugo Chávez, agrees: "Chavistas have unfortunately reached that ideological point where they can't even imagine any other President." If so, however, they risk leaving chavismo - and in turn Venezuela's poor - politically orphaned in the 2012 election against a more conservative opposition...
...multinationals are counting on it, anyway. Hecla is one firm that seems to have learned how to navigate chavismo. Last year it mined 130,000 oz. of gold in large part by investing $2.2 million in a partnership with about 450 miners, providing them with training, equipment like ventilators and chain saws--and legal status. An additional 140 are being brought in. "If it weren't for [Hecla], we'd still be out there with our picks and shovels getting nowhere," says Mireya Cobarrubia, 42, a mining veteran. Says local Hecla manager José Pino: "It isn't a problem...
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