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...Joaquina Frias, the president's 73-year-old aunt, sits on the porch of her small house in the sweltering heat in Sabaneta, the Barinas town where Hugo Chavez was born. When Hugo was a child, she says, he told other children that he would become President, and when he did he would fix a broken water fountain in front of their school. Others, like childhood friend and neighbor Flor Figueredo, don't recall Chavez showing much political ambition back then. Except once. "He made a comment that with there being so much oil in Venezuela, look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Everyone (Important) Is a Chavez | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...counter the Christian Democrat propaganda, D'Aubuisson showed a television documentary, which included an interview with his mother Joaquina declaring "that boy never caused me trouble in anything. He was always very faithful and loyal." In another television program, D'Aubuisson used charts explaining how Marxists take over a country and suggesting Christian Democrat complicity in El Salvador's subversion. Said D'Aubuisson: "We are at the mercy of these noxious people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: A Final Orgy of Insults | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

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