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  Socorro Ramirez Sep. 9, 2011

  Venezuela without Chávez?

  SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA – Like all cancer patients, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez faces three scenarios: a quick cure, prolonged treatment,…

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  Andres Velasco Jul. 31, 2012

  Rebuilding Venezuelan Democracy

  SANTIAGO – Excitement, anxious young faces, the sense of a nation’s best and brightest coming together for a noble cause: the scene was an o…

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  Kevin Casas-Zamora Feb. 15, 2012

  Venezuela’s Republic of Crime

  WASHINGTON, DC – The recent kidnapping of Carlos Pujalte, Mexico’s ambassador to Venezuela, has cast an unflattering light on the latter cou…

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  Jose M. Cadenas Oct. 15, 2012

  A Leader is Born in Venezuela

  CARACAS – The election that just gave Hugo Chávez his fourth term as president was about more than who would lead Venezuela. It was also a c…

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  Frederik W. de Klerk, Richard von Weizsäcker, André Glucksmann Sep. 28, 2012

  Who Will Decide Venezuela’s Election?

  PRAGUE – Venezuela’s presidential election campaign is in full swing, with voters expected to go to the polls on October 7 to elect their he…

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  Jorge G. Castañeda Sep. 28, 2012

  Latin America’s Tale of Two Crises

  MEXICO CITY – If one were an irredeemable optimist, upcoming events in Venezuela and Colombia could be viewed as a harbinger of good things …

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  Vaclav Havel, Francisco Bermudez, Garry Kasparov et al. Mar. 31, 2010

  Freedom Arrested in Venezuela

  PRAGUE – The arrest of Oswaldo Álvarez Paz, a former president of Venezuela’s Chamber of Deputies, governor of the Venezuelan state of Zulia…

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  Sandra Borda Feb. 9, 2011

  Grading Latin America’s Left

  BOGOTA–In January 2006, a few days after Evo Morales’ election as President of Bolivia, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez predicted that a ne…

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  Kevin Casas-Zamora Feb. 12, 2009

  A Decade of Hugo Chávez

  SAN JOSE – We should have known that something was amiss when, during President Hugo Chávez’s inauguration on February 2, 1999, he swore on …