In Venezuela, obstacles to 21st Century socialism
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President Hugo Chavez's ambitious project to bring "21st Century socialism" to Venezuela is running into obstacles -- easy cash, corruption and an expanding class of citizens who are growing rich by exploiting economic distortions.
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CARACAS - President Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez threatened yesterday to take over any private schools refusing to submit to the oversight of his socialist government, a move some Venezuelans fear will impose leftist ideology in the classroom.
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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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Hugo Chavez constantly urges his supporters to reject "savage capitalism," but allies of Venezuela's president have been slow to embrace his socialist values Â and some are struggling to explain their consumption of luxury goods.
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By Patrick Markey CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan lawmakers backingleft-wing President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday they wereworking with opponents to rewrite parts of a media law that hascome under fire from critics who fear it will muzzle dissent.
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President Hugo Chavez is incapable of uniting Venezuela, his opponents said Monday after the left-wing leader announced he would no longer recognize their
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Bolivia's leftist president must overcome steep bureaucratic obstacles and fierce political opposition before using his newly won right to seize huge swathes of land held by the country's richest and most powerful families.
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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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Venezuela shut down an opposition television channel on Monday and replaced it with one promoting President Hugo Chavez's self-proclaimed socialist revolution in a move widely criticized as a threat to democracy.
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Venezuela's replacement of an opposition television station on Monday with a state network promoting President Hugo Chavez's socialist revolution drew sharp criticism that the former soldier is attacking democratic freedoms.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has displayed canny brinkmanship in his nationalization drive toward Cuba-inspired socialism despite his image as an impulsive Latin American revolutionary.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- The line forms every day after dawn at the Spanish Consulate, hundreds of people seeking papers permitting them to abandon Venezuela for new lives in Spain. They say they are filled with despair at President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's growing power, and they appear not to be alone. At other consulates in this capital, long lines form daily....
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With a presidential election only four months away, Venezuela's virtually unchallenged leader may finally face a unified front
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When the rule of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was reaffirmed in a landslide 58-42 percent victory on Sunday, the opposition who put the recall vote on the ballot was stunned. They obviously don&#39;t spend much time in the nation&#39;s poor neighborhoods.
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Venezuela may be making decisions that are confounding oil companies, but the government there says it is merely seeking more income.
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Fiery Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has slowed his push for a socialist society, overhauling his Cabinet and promising to build bridges to business leaders after an unprecedented poll defeat last month.
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Conservative Felipe Calderon&#039;s apparent victory could signal that the leftist tide sweeping Latin America has reached its high-water mark, as voters frightened by the radicalism of Venezuela&#039;s Hugo Chavez seek refuge in more mainstream ideas across the region.