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...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 of the Latin American masses--and as a model for other populist leaders in the region, although few have his petroleum resources to use as a cudgel...
...WROTE THAT FIDEL CASTRO HAD THE MOST DANDRUFF YOU'D EVER SEEN. DID YOU HAVE ANY PERSONAL-HYGIENE ISSUES WITH OTHER LEADERS? When the head Taliban took off his socks and with his knife started cutting his toenails, I didn't know whether to laugh, cry or stop my conversation. But I persisted...
...decidedly leftist feel from another era. That much was clear from the Che Guevara banners flying at the "counter summit" rally Friday. Folk singers crooned in Spanish, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave an hours-long speech of Castro-style invective against the United States and George W. Bush. Fidel Castro may not have been invited to the summit, but protestors carried his image on banners all over the place. All of this was a far cry from the inchoate Vegan-anarchist tenor of the anti-globalization demonstrations that have accompanied most gatherings of the captains of the world economy...
...Chavez in 2002 (a charge the White House denies). Fuel was added last summer when conservative televangelist Pat Robertson-a high-profile supporter of President Bush - publicly called for Chavez's assassination. (Robertson has since apologized.) Chavez is a democratically elected president, but his close friendship with Cuba's Fidel Castro, his own flirtations with autocratic government and his recently declared interest in acquiring nuclear technology have Washington bristling. As a result, the fiery Chavez and his growing number of supporters around the region remain vocally convinced that Bush is out to kill...
PREDICTOR Eleanor Clift on The McLaughlin Group PREDICTION ''Fidel Castro will fall in '93, finally, and his daughter will be a prominent player in the new government.'' WHAT HAPPENED Fidel remains in power. His daughter has just defected...