Chavez and Qaddafi
via Foreign Policy Magazine Qaddafi's rambling 2009 speech to the U.N. General Assembly, in which he branded the Security Council a "terror council" and insinuated that the U.S. government was behi
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The Dictator Club
by Dane Vallejo Latin American reactions to the on-goings in Libya have been split and all the more interesting as such. On the one hand, there’s Peru which has become the first state to seve
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A jailed judge pays the price for defying Hugo Chávez
From The Economist BIAGIO PILIERI, a former journalist and mayor, was until recently little known in Venezuela. But last September he was elected to the National Assembly. He has been unable
...The ‘Egypt Effect’
by Leonie Fleischmann One can dream that the current waves of protests for better governance, throughout North Africa and the Middle East, would spread across the ocean to South America and in part
...Congratulations Mr Chavez
by Leonie Fleischmann Congratulations, Mr Chavez, on your 12 year anniversary of coming to power as the Venezuelan President. You are well on the way to achieving your goal of Bolivarianism. Ju
...Charting a course to irrelevance
From The Economist, Jan 27th 2011 IN 2001, after the autocratic Alberto Fujimori had resigned as Peru’s president, the transitional government that succeeded him proposed that the Organisation of
...Case of jailed union leader in Venezuela draws condemnation from human rights groups
By Christopher Toothaker via The Canadian Press CARACAS, Venezuela — Union leader Ruben Gonzalez once admired and supported President Hugo Chavez. Nowadays, he is jailed in a police station
...Dictator Chavez grants himself veto powers
by Alek Boyd A few years ago, searches for Venezuela in Google News use to return about 3,000 results. Today, it returns more than 25,000. Alas such explosion of news articles does not mean tha
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