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...housing problem that President Hugo Chavez inherited on taking power in 1998 has been one of the toughest challenges of government - and it is attracting more attention as he campaigns for reelection in December. Chavez, a leftist who loves to provoke the Bush administration, is a self-styled champion of the poor but has fallen short in keeping his housing promises. Although Venezuela has stepped up construction of new houses this year, it still needs a further 1.6 million new units to meet the shortfall in low-income housing needs, according to official figures. Only around one-eighth of that...
...Bush Administration was starting to think that it didn't have to worry as much about Latin America's leftist tilt led by radical Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, it may have to think again. In recent months, as left-wing, anti-U.S. candidates in Peru and Mexico lost presidential races, the Bush Administration had reason to feel that perhaps the region's so-called "pink revolution" was ebbing like a low Caribbean tide. But this Sunday's presidential election in Ecuador may well raise it again: the likely winner is Rafael Correa, a fervent anti-yanqui nationalist and Chavez...
...like Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. In fact, five years ago he received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois, and he was briefly Ecuador's finance minister until he was removed last year for publicly excoriating the World Bank. Soon after, Correa launched his leftist Alianza Pais (Country Alliance) Party and positioned himself as the political outsider for the 2006 presidential race. It was a smart move in an impoverished nation whose Congress is best known for its bribery and embezzlement scandals - a country that has seen seven different presidents in just 10 years, three...
...Correa denies suggestions that the oil-rich Chavez is helping to fund his campaign, and Chavez, since watching his outspoken support of the leftist candidates in Peru and Mexico backfire, has been uncharacteristically quiet about Ecuador. But analysts like Shifter notes that Correa, who recently visited Chavez, feels confident he can follow the Venezuelan's lead...
...After Ecuador's election, Washington stands to finish the year swallowing more leftist victories: polls show Daniel Ortega, the controversial former Sandinista President of Nicaragua, may well win that country's Nov. 5 election; and Chavez himself is expected to punctuate 2006 for the Latin left by winning re-election...