Word: leftist
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...instead of on his incessant, globetrotting socialist and anti-U.S. crusades. That way, Chávez stands a chance of leaving a record as the man who finally set Venezuela and Latin America on a real course toward solving terrible inequality and not as just another overweening Latin leftist who stayed too long. Chávez insisted to TIME last year that "capitalism is the way of the devil." But while Chávez has used his oil windfalls to reduce poverty, Venezuelans suggest they want to increase satanic capitalist investment to solve their nagging unemployment...
...brought necessary changes to a very corrupt Venezuela," says Juan Mejía, a head of the student movement that led the opposition to Chávez at the referendum. Indeed, it was Chávez's electrifying emergence that paved the way for the election in this decade of other leftist heads of state, like Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Argentina's Néstor Kirchner and Chile's Michelle Bachelet, even if Chávez affects to disdain their moderate, market-oriented socialism. Sunday's humbling results will make Chávez a less swaggering figure on the hemispheric scene...
...Being mayor of Mexico City is a traditional apprenticeship for presidential candidates of Ebrard's leftist Democratic Revolution Party. But after a year in office, Ebrard shows no sign of becoming his party's anointed champion. He is constantly overshadowed by his mentor and predecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who gained immense popularity with pension schemes for the poor and construction projects for the middle class. Lopez Obrador lost the 2006 presidential race to conservative Felipe Calderon by less than 0.5 percent of the vote in an election that was decided in the courts. The charismatic silver-haired leftist claims...
...free mega rink is the brainchild of leftist Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, as part of his campaign to make this heaving mountain capital a more pleasant environment. Last spring, he shipped in tons of sand to build four urban beaches that were also a hit with residents, while inspiring dozens of comedy skits about plump sunbathers walking through gridlocked traffic. Ebrard has also built miles of cycle paths, on which he's posed for cameras atop his mountain bike on sunny Sundays...
...everyone is cheering, of course. Detractors accuse the leftist mayor of spending public money to provide circuses for poor Mexicans in exchange for their votes. Ebrard is having none of it, retorting that such criticisms come from the rich elite that can afford to take vacations on the beach or at ski resorts. The mayor is laying on recreation for the city's millions of have-nots, who can barely afford to feed their families let alone take a holiday in the sun or snow...