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...year. The opposition likes to point out that some 40% of the electorate voted against him in a recall referendum in August 2004. But Chavez's critics have not been able to field any serious alternatives to the President, and have put themselves through humiliating exercises, including a bungled coup, a failed two-month oil strike and a series of local electoral defeats. Most recently, the opposition parties pulled out of the last legislative elections, claiming the vote would be manipulated, and allowed Chavez's allies to take control of all seats in the country's congress. Meanwhile, the President...
...show what he claimed. And finally, as he was forced to admit two weeks ago, before submitting his resignation to Seoul National University (S.N.U.), that nine of the 11 stem-cell lines he described in Science weren't from clones at all. Last week, in a kind of scientific coup de grace, a university panel declared it could find no evidence to support the validity of the remaining two lines either...
...White House helped raise Chávez's profile when Washington was widely believed to have backed a failed coup in 2002 against the democratically elected revolutionary (a charge the Bush Administration denies). Since then, despite what critics call Chávez's penchant for authoritarian rule, his popularity has risen--not only in Latin America but also in some parts of U.S. cities like Boston and New York, where the Venezuelan government--owned company Citgo is providing low-income residents with cheap heating oil this winter. Chávez has surpassed his good friend Fidel Castro as the anti-U.S. idol...
...lived Russian democracy back in the 1990s as a member of ?young Turks? economists headed by Yegor Gaidar, Yeltsin's Acting Premier. In 1994, Illarionov quit the cabinet in the wake of his conflict with Premier Victor Chernomyrdin, whom he accused of stifling liberal reforms and staging an ?economic coup d?etat...
...government, it's possible the first Prime Minister and Cabinet won't stay in power anywhere close to their four-year terms. That means the biggest threat to the fledgling democracy may be political gridlock. A Pentagon official monitoring Iraq acknowledges that a weak administration could invite a coup. But that risk, says the official, "may just be one of the albatrosses the system has to bear...