Word: venezuela
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...coups go, Venezuela?s could only be called absurd. The plotters were brash and incompetent, while the U.S. stumbled on the sidelines, appearing at times to welcome the overthrow of an elected government. The whole thing lasted only three days, and in the end, the target of the putsch re-emerged as its conqueror: the once and once again leader, President Hugo Ch?vez...
...Were these motives enough for a made-in-Washington coup? Though there is no evidence that the U.S. played an active role, Assistant Secretary of State and former ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich told Time that he had, before the coup, met with several Venezuelan delegations in Washington, many of whom wanted help in ousting Ch?vez. While Reich concedes that the U.S. encouraged the demonstrations that led to the coup, "the U.S. had no association with this plot," he insists. "We told them, 'Sorry, we?re not in that business...
...Antonioni's first color production, Il Deserto Rosso (Red Desert); in Rome. BORN. To ELIZABETH HURLEY, 36, actress and cleavage-proud model, a son, Damian Charles; in London. Hurley claims the father is former boyfriend and multimillionaire producer Stephen Bing. EXTRADITION SOUGHT. Of CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ, former President of Venezuela, and his wife Cecilia Matos after the national prosecutor's office reinstituted charges that they mishandled funds prior to being forced from office in 1993; in Caracas. The couple now divide their time between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. GUILTY. Plea entered by MAMDOUH MAHMUD SALIM, 45, alleged...
...film, Costner stars as Dr. Joe Darrow, an emergency room doctor from Chicago, whose pregnant wife Emily (Susanna Thompson) loses her life in a bus accident. while working with the Red Cross in Venezuela. Upon hearing news of the disaster, Joe journeys to South America to look for his wife. The rainy season prohibits the recovery of the victims’ bodies and he returns to Chicago a widower...
...never sure if his encounters are simply in his own mind. But even then, Dragonfly leaves us wondering about the difference between reality and the reality the mind creates. In keeping with his promise to look after Emily’s patients while she is in Venezuela, Darrow makes frequent visits to the pediatric oncology ward. Mysteriously enough, two of the children in the ward have near-death experiences under his care and bring back strange messages for him, supposedly from his deceased wife. One of them whispers that he “saw her yesterday,” bringing...