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...Raul Penaranda, a Bolivian journalist, is an International Nieman Fellow at Harvard...

Author: By Raul Penaranda | Title: Romney's Immigration Hypocrisy | 2/5/2008 | See Source »

...margin to drop below 1%, at which point he'd seek a recount (as Al Gore did in Florida in 2000, he said later). But the margin barely budged, and the opposition started seething in the streets, fearing fraud. Around midnight, Chávez's ex-defense minister, Raul Baduel, who opposed the reforms, warned that Chávez was flirting with popular unrest. By 1 a.m., says a government insider, Vice President Jorge Rodriguez - a respected former CNE director who had guided the transparent presidential recall referendum that Chávez defeated in 2004 - helped convince el comandante that conceding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Chavez Handle Defeat? | 12/5/2007 | See Source »

...planned on reckoning with, particularly since students have long been a bloc that Latin America's political left could depend on. Chavez also couldn't withstand the defections within his own bloc, including socialist state Governors and, perhaps most important, his erstwhile pal and former Defense Minister, Raul Baduel, who earlier this month called Chavez's amendments a "constitutional coup d'etat." The attempt by Chavez and his backers to demonize figures like Baduel - labeling them "traitors" - backfired, especially since Baduel had helped put Chavez back in power after a botched opposition coup attempt against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chavez Tastes Defeat Over Reforms | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

...never lost an election. Scrambling to explain this aberration in a land where Hugo Chavez dominates the political landscape, many political observers point to the thousands of university students, who, dormant until this year, clogged the streets to protest the reform in the weeks leading up to the vote. Raul Baduel, the former defense minister and longtime ally of the President, also injected life into the opposition when he, along with the former pro-Chavez party Podemos (Spanish for "We Can"), called for people to vote no. But the results raise another, perhaps more important, question: how much help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Venezuelans Turned on Chavez | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

...result, critics of Bush's Cuba policy argue his address simply helped preserve rather than undermine Cuba's nebulous status quo. And they're urging Washington again to consider stepped-up contact with Raul Castro - widely regarded as more pragmatically flexible than Fidel - as a more effective means of jump-starting a democratic transition. "President Bush is right when he says this is a unique moment in Cuba, but he's missing that moment," says Jake Colvin, director of USA Engage in Washington, which favors moves like lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba - something even most Cuban-Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Up the Hard Line on Cuba | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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