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The limits of Chávism
He has been fêted by China, Iran, Russia and Ken Livingstone. He has used rising oil revenues to buy support in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and America.But on Sunday President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela was checked in his drive to create an anti-American bloc south of the Rio Grande: his preferred candidate in the Peruvian presidential election, Ollanta Humala, was soundly defeated by Alan García. Mr Chávez had hoped that Mr Humala, a Left-wing populist, would bring Peru into the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, a regional group conceived as a counterweight to the Washington-backed Free Trade Area of the Americas. Posted by: ryuge 2006-06-06 |
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