Word: venezuela
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...time high in trading early Friday amid India's continuing economic boom; and Hong Kong shares reached a five-year high while indices in Singapore, Jakarta and Sydney set new records. And though stocks in Asia, in particular, are on fire, they are not alone. From Germany to Venezuela to South Africa, equity markets in both mature and emerging markets have moved up sharply this year?and show little sign of slowing. The Dow Jones World Stock Index, which excludes the U.S., has risen nearly 11% in 2006, easily topping gains in the U.S., where the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
...populist record while running Mexico's gargantuan capital was largely positive. And opponents' attempts to paint him as a Mexican Hugo Ch?vez, the radically leftist and stridently anti-U.S. President of Venezuela, have gained little traction. Part of that is because L?pez takes pains to pair his social welfare ambitions with an investment-friendly business sense that Wall Street, for example, has found appealing in other modern Latin leftists like Brazilian President Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva...
...That may not be enough to satisfy the angry protesters. Processions of public buses painted with the word "mourning" have circulated around the capital, while protesters held signs with pictures of masked men shooting children that read "Venezuela is the country of impunity." Journalists marched to the Attorney General's office to demand justice on Thursday after a photographer for a Caracas newspaper was shot and killed on his way to cover the protests on Wednesday...
...presented one candidate for December's presidential elections. And since the largest opposition parties pulled out of last December's parliamentary elections in protest over the electoral system, the National Assembly is made up completely of Chavez's allies. All of which means that for the moment at least, Venezuela's middle-class protests won't become a revolution capable of competing with their President...
...Humala's seemingly contradictory faces reflect in many ways his colorful, complicated background, and they are the reason many of his critics on both the left and the right still don't entirely trust him. Unlike other like-minded leftist politicians in South America, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and recently elected Evo Morales in Bolivia, Humala doesn't come from humble beginnings. His father, who is the founder of an ultranationalist, neo-Marxist movement that preaches the superiority of indigenous Indian Peruvians over the country's descendants of the Spanish and promotes violence against those lighter-skinned elite, raised...