Word: venezulean
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...forming enough coalitions with enough groups to ring up the votes.” Birns said Montealegre is widely perceived as the U.S. government’s preferred candidate. Birns added that officials believe Ortega, the former Marxist who ruled the country in the 1980s, could ally with Venezulean President Hugo Chavez. “Even though Ortega doesn’t have a Marxist bone left in his body, it is still enough to terrify the United States,” said Birns. However, the U.S. will likely have little power over the upcoming elections...
...Tribe. On horseback, Desmond Holdridge, 24, explorer for the Brooklyn Museum, rode for 30 days from the mouth of the Amazon River to Rio Brasco in the jungle country of Brazil, close to the Venezulean border. With him went a native horse thief, the only guide brave enough to accompany him. In the heart of the jungle he found the Pishauko tribe, known to white men by name only. Originally a plains people, the Pishauko fled into the jungle to escape becoming slaves to Spanish conquerors. The natives worship before a symbol which looks like a crucifix, chant services before...
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