Where Venezuela appears
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…the next three years I conducted numerous “mobile tests” ... traveling to Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and Colombia in order to fine-tune my system of conducting business from abroad. I finally left my job last November, t...
on control by Fidel and Raul Castro. Fidel just turned 89, and Raul will be 84 in June. With them the generation of the revolution will come to an end, giving way to younger people, led by Raul Castro’s chosen heir, Engineer Miguel Diaz-Can...
…a or Paraguay, iron ore and grains from Brazil, gold from Peru, beef from Uruguay, tin from Bolivia, oil from Venezuela and Ecuador, or coal from Colombia. This economic link became crystal clear in the US financial crisis of 2008 that slow...
…tries of the ALBA, and the clear leadership of the group known as the nations of the XXIth Century Socialism: Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua. 11. To this list we must add the sympathy and solidarity that Cuba inspires in governm...
…hallenges its authority with any possibility of success. 5. After Hugo Chavez's election to the presidency of Venezuela at the end of 1998, that oil- producing country transferred to Cuba enormous amounts of resources. The economist Carmelo...
…untry’s largest retailer. Died March 3 in Sydney of complications from surgery. Hugo Chavez, 58. President of Venezuela since 1998, who used the country’s oil wealth to help the poor, nationalized corporations and dismissed foes as puppets...
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…ten North Korea— and also, inexplicably to almost everyone on his staff, threatening military intervention in Venezuela—Spencer called for an evening protest. At 8:45 p.m.—with the president in for the night in Bedminster—about 250 young me...
cratic environments is more than a temporary problem that can be fixed through an inevitable rotation of power. In Hungary, the Fidesz government has instituted policies that make it difficult for opposition parties to raise funds or presen...
…rom U.S. and European political leaders due to Azerbaijan’s role as an alternative to Russian energy exports. Venezuela also has a substantial number of political prisoners—around 100 as of June 2016, according to credible sources, includin...
…al consultants in major democracies, as have state energy corporations in oil-rich countries like Azerbaijan, Venezuela, and Angola. But authoritarian governments generally seek the assistance of global public relations companies in the wak...
…ad dominated the executive branch for over a decade. Combined with a victory for the democratic opposition in Venezuela’s parliamentary elections, Macri’s victory may have been the beginning of a rollback of Latin America’s populist movemen...
…ce been convicted and jailed on sodomy charges. Prominent political figures have also been jailed in Belarus, Venezuela, Iran, Ethiopia, Turkey, and Egypt, among many others. Human rights activists and bloggers are also subject to harassmen...
…broadcasting, 47 of them in the 90 days prior to the election. Aurelio Concheso, an analyst with Transparency Venezuela, placed the value of this free airtime at $1.8 billion. Another government mandate required radio and television station...
…ion’s most important medium. All this occurred within a few years after his election as president in 2000. In Venezuela, Chávez used his authority over media licensing to destroy Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), a popular broadcast station...
… and generals who ruled over South American dictatorships during the 20th century, his tenure as president of Venezuela was sanctified by no fewer than 17 elections, including a number of referendums. Chávez won all but one.
…decline over the past decade. The setbacks have been concentrated in authoritarian states like Russia, China, Venezuela, and lran. But civil society has also met with growing prob- lems in democracies—India and Indonesia among them—and in s...
…not prepared to pretend that there was agreement on output quotas. With Iran chairing the meeting, an annoyed Venezuela in attendance and an embattled Libya looking on, it was much harder to get the group to put aside their differences and...
… the plane at the airport, he was informed by Russian authorities that he would not be allowed to go to Cuba, Venezuela, Iceland, Ecuador, or any other country without the permission of Russian officials, which would not be immediately fort...
…or policies, and petitions or other communications aimed at government officials. in China, lran, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, and other authoritarian countries. Vladimir Putin spoke of the color revolution as the latest form of America…
