Fiery ChÃÂ¡vez Aims  For a Global Role
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 22 -- Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's blistering attack on President Bush at the United Nations this week marked a striking crescendo in a campaign to project Venezuela as a country with the global reach to counter American initiatives.
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President Hugo ChÃ¡vezâs economic policies have been generating a boom for those most capitalist of institutions â Venezuelaâs banks.
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Caracas, December 9, 2004âVenezuelan President Hugo ChÃ¡vez and heads of state and representatives from 11 other South American nations gathered in Cuzco, Peru yesterday and today, to formally inaugurate the South American Community of Nations (CSN).
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- President Bush claimed progress on trade with Uruguay's president yesterday as he courted another leftist leader on his Latin American tour. "We care about the human condition," Bush said, trying to coopt the populism of one influential leftist rival he won't meet: Venezuela's firebrand Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez.
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CHILE said it will make US President George W. Bush and fellow leaders wear poncho-like &quot;chamantos&quot; at this weekend&#39;s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, answering what is always a burning question.
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COSCUEZ, Colombia  - Eishy Hayata is a hero, and  he wants to make damn sure the world knows it.
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BEIJING The Venezuelan president, Hugo ChÃ¡vez, finished a four-day visit to China during the weekend in which he signed agreements that promise to open China&#39;s access to Venezuela&#39;s oil and natural gas fields.
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CARACAS, Venezuela President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez of Venezuela has long pledged to buck Washington-backed economic policies in Latin America. Now, two months after winning reelection and consolidating his hold on the country with new powers to rule by decree, he is strengthening economic ties in the region in a bid to limit U.S. influence....
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The 12th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum in Chile this week has a thematic agenda that could detour into security and world peace issues, especially with newly reelected US President George W. Bush asserting his global leadership role.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- In the 1990s, Venezuelan journalist JosÃÂ© Vicente Rangel hosted a television talk show whose aggressive style and muckraking led to the downfall of President Carlos AndrÃÂ©s PÃÂ©rez. Now, after eight years as President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's deputy, Rangel is back on television, interviewing...
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CARACAS -- President Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez was granted free rein yesterday to accelerate changes in broad areas of society by presidential decree -- a move critics said propels Venezuela toward dictatorship.
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From the snowy peaks of Bolivia to guerrilla hideouts in the Colombian jungle, Chavez's win fortified a common cause among anti-American radicals: the fight against "imperialist" economic policies that they believe Washington intends to impose on the region.
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MEXICO CITY, Oct 12 (IPS) - Spain is celebrating Christopher Columbus's   arrival in the Americas Tuesday with promises of stronger  cooperation and  business ties with the countries it once  conquered.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez exercises broad power over Venezuela. His allies sit on every seat in the National Assembly. His supporters stack the Supreme Court. And every futile opposition effort to oust him, from a coup to a national oil strike to a recall referendum two years ago,...
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CARACAS -- Arturo Sarmiento speaks English polished at Sandhurst, Britain's military school. He made fortunes trading oil and importing whiskey. Now Sarmiento, just 35 and a staunch supporter of President Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez owns an expanding television network.
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Guatemala's new president, Alvaro Colom, pledged on Monday to fight violence and drug trafficking as he took power in a country racked by crime.
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QUITO, Ecuador, Nov. 25 -- No matter who wins Ecuador's presidential election on Sunday, many outside the country will view it as a decision between dueling political stereotypes: Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's dream of a unified region liberated from U.S. influence, or that of free-market...