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It’s finally happened: “President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela died Tuesday afternoon after a struggle with cancer, the government announced, leaving behind a bitterly divided nation in the grip of a political crisis that grew more acute as he languished for weeks, silent and out of sight, in hospitals in Havana and Caracas. Close to tears Read More
In Venezuela, the end is near: “President Hugo Chávez delegated to Vice President Nicolás Maduro increased administrative duties on a bunch of financial areas, further sparking rumors about the real health condition of the Venezuelan leader. In a decree issued Wednesday from his hospital bed in Havana, Chávez granted Maduro the power to perform all Read More
Professor George Ciccariello-Maher thinks post-Chávez Venezuela needs to be more like it is today: “Since [Chávez's] election, Venezuela has been fundamentally transformed. Poverty has been cut in half and extreme poverty by three-quarters, education and health care —once reserved for the wealthy— are now freely available to all Venezuelans. More important than these considerable improvements Read More
Tonight marks the last of 2012′s three presidential debates. This last one, which focuses on foreign policy, is being held at Lynn University in Boca Raton, perhaps the most ironic setting for a political debate. Most Americans may feel the urge to tune out of the last debate and return to their regularly scheduled programming. Read More
What occurred in Venezuela on October 7 should come as a shock for many conservatives here in America — it’s not every day you see an evil dictator reelected by his people, and by a wide margin in a free election. From Fox News Latino: “President Hugo Chávez won a third consecutive six-year term on Read More
On Monday, Mitt Romney called for an investigation into the untimely death of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, who died in a car crash on the southeastern part of the island on Sunday. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the GOP’s unofficial Latino mascot, soon echoed the presumptive nominee’s demand for justice, saying it was “critically important that Read More
Throughout present-day Latin America, no two leaders are bestowed with so much fervor, equal parts adoration and animosity, than Fidel Castro in Cuba and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela. The socialist, anti-imperialism policies they exhort make them the scourge of the Western world; their totalitarian attempts to prolong their regimes fuel opposition within their own countries. Read More