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Article: Who Is Protecting Hugo Chavez? Why has the Bush administration failed to confront the growing threat in Venezuela even as Hugo Chavez expands his influence by buddying up with terrorists?(THE WORLD)
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- Insight on the News
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- November 24, 2003
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Byline: Christopher Whalen, SPECIAL TO INSIGHT
Last year a popular but disorganized opposition movement in Venezuela threatened the government of Hugo Chavez, the self-styled populist who has taken that nation's battered political economy on a strange journey into social chaos after gaining power in 1999. In March of last year, Insight predicted the ouster of Chavez and he was forced out of office. But a bizarre combination of factors returned this protege of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro to power.
More than a year later, experts on Latin America tell this magazine that Washington's soft line on Chavez in Venezuela adversely is affecting U.S. security and ...