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Transcript: Profile: President Hugo Chavez and news media in ...
NPR Morning Edition;  November 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Profile: President Hugo Chavez and news media in Venezuela ... past year. Much of the middle class and many key business ... trying to force President Hugo Chavez to step down. They ... cheering) President HUGO CHAVEZ: (Spanish spoken ...

Article: Fed up with politicians, middle class Venezuelans ...
AP Worldstream;  September 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... 0000 Dateline: CARACAS, Venezuela Fed up with lackluster politicians incapable of standing up to President Hugo Chavez, many middle class Venezuelans are starting their own get-out-the-vote campaigns ahead of possible referendum on ousting ...

Article: Many leave home to escape the leadership of Hugo ...
The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  December 4, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... like many other upper- and middle-class Venezuelans who prefer exile to ... lives in halves: before and after Hugo Chavez, the populist president who has ... cultural empathy that exists between middle-class Venezuelans and the United States ...

Transcript: Analysis: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ...
Tavis Smiley (NPR);  August 16, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez claiming victory in ... referendum on President Hugo Chavez into a second day ... dictator among the rich and middle class, has survived the recall ... s the president. Hugo Chavez remains the president ...

Transcript: Analysis: Opposition to Venezuelan President Hugo ...
NPR Morning Edition;  October 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez continuing to grow Host ... support for President Hugo Chavez. The march was a response ... investors and terrified the middle class, and they say he ... opposition' s march. `Hugo Chavez will continue to be ...

Transcript: Interview: Frances Robles discusses the violence in Venezuela ...
Talk of the Nation (NPR);  March 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's resistance to a ... Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is resisting a recall ... then--What?--the middle class, the elite? Ms. ROBLES: It's more of the middle class. They will say that ...

Article: Oil, missions and a chat show - Hugo Chavez's ...
The Economist (US);  May 14, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Fidel: friends, but not twins Hugo Chavez's brand of revolution has delivered ... development TO GET a glimpse of what Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's president, hopes ... the country's fast-shrinking middle class, Mr Chavez is an altogether more ...