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Death Comes for El Comandante: Hugo Chávez (1954-2013)
Like his idol, Fidel Castro, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was one of the most garrulous and pugnacious leaders Latin America has ever known. That makes his...
The Loyal Lieutenant: In Hugo Chávez’s Absence, Nicolás Maduro’s Stature Grows
Vice President Nicolás Maduro is cancer-stricken President Hugo Chávez's designated successor, but can he fill el comandante's boots?
Venezuela's Next Chapter
Like his Idol Fidel Castro, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was one of the most garrulous and pugnacious leaders Latin America has ever known. That makes his...
Hugo Chávez Wins Big, Gives Rivals Six More Years To Climb Out of Their Hole
Henrique Capriles Radonski and his supporters can take only one, very small consolation from the results of Sunday’s presidential election in Venezuela. The...
Hugo Chavez’s Constitution Is a Muddled Map Out of Venezuela’s Crisis
As the socialist President fights to recover from cancer surgery in Cuba before his Jan. 10 inauguration, his 1999 charter leaves the country in governmental...
Hugo Chávez’s Absence Deepens Venezuela’s Sense of Crisis
When Venezuelan authorities announced a long-overdue devaluation of their currency last week, ministers insisted that the command had come directly from...
U.S. Hopes Chavez’s Passing Could Smooth Relations with Venezuela
Chavez had often campaigned on anti-U.S. rhetoric and relations between the two countries have been strained almost since he took office 14 years ago.
If Chávez Can’t Be Sworn In, Is He Still President of Venezuela?
Venezuela has decried its neighbors' loose ways with their constitutions but the ruling party in Caracas does much the same--especially when it comes to Chávez...
Chavez’s Cancer Mystery: What if Venezuela’s President Doesn’t Run for Re-Election?
Lent, the pre-Easter season that started last week, is traditionally a time when Christians ponder their mortality – and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had a...
Is Hugo Chávez Preparing Venezuela for His Departure?
Get your personal affairs in order. It’s the hardest thing doctors have to tell cancer patients who are as ill as media reports suggest Hugo Chávez is. With an...
Hugo Chávez’s Re-election Bid: Is the Latin American Left Stumbling?
As I write in the international edition of TIME, and as Girish Gupta wrote last week on TIME.com, Venezuela’s burgeoning violent crime may well prove a deciding...
Candidate Capriles: Could This Man Defeat Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez?
To explain why left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has stayed in power for 13 years, fans and foes alike point out that he controls the western...
Coming to Grips with Chavez
To understand Venezuela today, you have to understand Venezuela B.C. — Before Chavez. That is, of course, radical left-wing President Hugo Chavez, who is poised...
Why Hugo Chávez's Dramatic Reappearance May Not Be Enough
It's no secret that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is given to messianic rhetoric. So it was little surprise that on the early Monday evening of July 4,...
As the Presidential Campaign Kicks Off, Many Venezuelans Don’t Like Their Options
Francisco Nabas says he just saw a cellphone robbery this morning outside his printing shop at a rundown mall in central Caracas. The past weekend saw 68 murders...
Venezuelan Video Scandal Fizzles: Can Capriles Still Unseat Chávez?
Juan Carlos Caldera isn’t the sharpest knife in Venezuela’s political drawer. Last week, the campaign of President Hugo Chávez, who is battling opposition...
Chavez: A Mixed Victory in Venezuela Elections
The regional voting in Venezuela on Sunday was ostensibly about gubernatorial and mayoral contests. But for the past decade, every election held in the Western...
Hugo Chavez for President ... Now and Forever?
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has given his rubber-stamp National Assembly the green light to fashion yet another constitutional referendum on whether...
Venezuela’s Refinery Explosion: Will It Affect Hugo Chávez’s Re-election Chances?
When I visited Venezuela’s Paraguaná oil refinery complex, the world’s second largest, in 2007, anxieties seemed to flare like its burn-off pipes. Employees...
Venezuela's Bicentennial: Should Chávez Re-Examine Bolívar – and His Revolution?
George Washington and Simón Bolívar are rightly remembered as the New World's greatest independence heroes, but the anti-democratic flaws each possessed are too...
