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Article: Going South? Florida watches nervously as a neo-populist tide rolls through Latin America, the state's most important trade region.(Latin American Connection)(Cover story)
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- Florida Trend
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- November 1, 2006
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Earlier this year, Hugo Chavez, the fiery, anti-American president of Venezuela, unexpectedly announced he was slashing U.S. air service to his country. Venezuela's National Aviation Institute would ban all Continental and Delta flights and cut American Airlines flights by half. The ploy was no random broadside. Chavez was irked at a decade-long policy by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration that prohibited Venezuelan carriers from adding flights to the U.S. because of concerns over the country's air-safety procedures.
Chavez's tactic worried Florida executives and professionals who do business with Venezuela, the state's third-largest trade partner. Raul ...