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...chair of Fuerza Latina, which discussed the referendum at its weekly meeting yesterday, said that while she respected Chavez’s efforts to help the poor, she found him “kind of hard to take seriously” due to his radical rhetoric on the international stage. Last January Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad travelled to Venezuela. Chavez is also often portrayed as the leader of a shift to the left in other Latin American countries, such as Bolivia...
...interview six months after her husband's disappearance, Anne Darwin indicated she presumed her husband was dead and sought the closure that came with that knowledge. "I have no reason to think he would have left and stage-managed this," she reportedly said. The questions that lingered then have been supplemented by new ones, as the husband she saw swallowed up by the sea has emerged once more, whole and unharmed but still awash in the unknown...
...were a U.S. President, Putin would be a lame duck at this stage. His second term of office expires four months from now, and the constitution prohibits him from seeking a third consecutive term. Still, nobody doubts that Russia's immediate political future will be decided primarily by the former KGB man now in the Kremlin. Some supporters have urged him to find a legal loophole to allow himself another term; others hope that, as the leading candidate of United Russia in Sunday's poll, he simply moves into the legislature in the job of Prime Minister, and inverts...
...been associated with domestic economic woes and a string of geopolitical defeats that culminated in the Iran hostage crisis, Reagan managed, almost as soon as he took office, to convince the public that a new "morning in America" had broken, by getting tough with U.S. adversaries on the global stage...
...abandoned the party when the voting results were announced at 1 a.m., leaving a sparse crowd with long faces milling about in a sea of empty rum and beer bottles. A large inflatable bust of Chavez with his arms outstretched lay face-down and half-deflated on an empty stage. A man who looked drunk held up several soggy and torn "Yes" posters in front of a giant projection screen showing the President conceding defeat...