Word: venezuelanizing
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...doubts that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is a brilliant politician. But the controversial leader who loves to pick fights with the U.S. has also been a fortunate one - not just because he's presiding over the highest crude prices his oil-producing nation has ever enjoyed, but also because his opposition has proven to be one of the most incompetent and fractured in the hemisphere...
...associated with an oppressive military and security apparatus, responsible for imprisoning and in many instances torturing thousands of dissidents. And a number of factors could keep Raul on the hard line even after Fidel dies. For one thing, the largesse of Fidel's left-wing and oil-rich ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, has helped significantly to keep Cuba's economy afloat, lessening the urgency of economic reforms that many had expected under Fidel in recent years. (Cuba may also be buoyed by recent discoveries of ample crude reserves off its own coast.) What's more, just beneath Raul...
...rise of a generation of politicians seeking to capitalize on frustration with the free-market, pro-American policies commonly pursued in the region in the 1990s, when much was promised and little was accomplished in terms of raising living standards. The leader of this turn toward populism is Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who has cast himself as the heir to Fidel Castro, using his country's oil bonanza to purchase political influence all over the continent. But in recent months, the Chávez movement has run up against opposition from forces that view it as wrongheaded, militaristic and undemocratic...
...underlying debate on economics aside, the campaign was tarred by sharp negative attacks, including suggestions by the Calderón campaign that Lopez Obrador is another incarnation of Venezuelan President Hugo R. Chávez, the left-wing former general who has become one of the U.S.’s strongest opponents in Latin America...
...tallying computers. Most Mexicans today believe a massive fraud was committed that year, and documents recently revealed largely bear that out. So, because L?pez Obrador's campaign challenged powerful economic interests - and because Calder?n's campaign painted L?pez Obrador as the like of the hemisphere's left-wing bogeyman, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez - PRD loyalists may cry fraud if their man is declared the loser...