Moscow's military ambitions Latin America do not end there Maduro, has been stirring up trouble with the governments of Ecuador and Colombia, just as his Hugo Chavez did with Moscow's assistance ago. ..…
I had worked a lot as a press correspondent during Hugo Chavez’s mediation to achieve peace in Colombia. ... AS: Yes, it was Chavez’s speech known as the “golpe de timón “, with the slogan “communa o nada”, on October 20, 2012. ..…
Other countries Latin America, however, have rejected military intervention have urged solution to Colombia's to the east.. Uribe, has been constant of Maduro and his predecessor, President Hugo Chavez... ..…
“We put Uribe [in the Casa de Nariño], otherwise we’d have a Chávez in Colombia,” said one, referring to the late Venezuelan revolutionary Hugo Chávez. ..…
Canadian embassy officials in Venezuela told James Rochlin, a professor of the University of British Columbia, that they felt “burned” by Chávez. The Canadian government began to get cozy with Colombia against Venezuela. ..…
Several Latin American leaders have changed laws to allow them to stand for re-election, including leftists such as Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chávez and President Evo Morales in Bolivia. Colombia’s conservative former president Alvaro Uribe unsuccessfully tried to change the law..…
Several Latin American leaders have changed laws to allow them to stand for re-election, including leftists such as Venezuela's late president Hugo Chavez and President Evo Morales in Bolivia. Colombia's conservative former president Alvaro Uribe unsuccessfully tried to change the law and..…
The FBL is a paramilitary group that has traditionally supported the Chavez government and has avoided conflict with government security forces. They primarily operate in western Venezuela along the border with Colombia, especially in Tachira, the state that borders Colombia’s Norte de..…
Canadian government's desire to bolster fledgling free-market democracies Latin America in competition with left-leaning, authoritarian nationalists like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is expressed with force, even. For countries like Peru and Colombia that trying be in the region, I think..…
Maduro is generous enough not to close them down – which any dictator – of which there are now many in Latin America (take your pick: Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Guatemala, Honduras….) would have done long ago. . ***** . From the very beginning, when Hugo..…
This elite intelligence unit was charged with expanding covert operations against Chavez and led clandestine missions out of an intelligence fusion center (CIA-DEA-DIA) in Colombia. Some of the pieces that have been coming together include the discovery of several close aides to..…
During the protest, Guaido announced the installation of collection centers for medicine and food — items lacking in Venezuela — in neighboring Colombia and Brazil. . Speaking at a pro-regime demonstration marking 20 years since his predecessor Hugo Chavez came to power, Maduro..…
During the protest, Guaido announced the installation of collection centers for medicine and food — items lacking in Venezuela — in neighboring Colombia and Brazil. . Speaking at a pro-regime demonstration marking 20 years since his predecessor Hugo Chavez came to power, Maduro..…
The “Bolivarian Diaspora,” which has been recognized by numerous observers as the largest recorded refugee crisis in the Americas, is a direct result of the “Bolivarian Revolution” initiated by Hugo Chavez and prolonged by Nicolás Maduro. The already strained economies of Bolivia, Brazil,..…
If inequality determined electoral outcomes, then a Chávez-like candidate would have been more probable in Brazil, Chile, or Colombia, where the gap between the well-off and everyone else was larger. . ..…
The MUD was created to challenge the Chavez government and the Bolivarian revolution. It consists of First Justice, whose leader, Julio Borges, is living in self-exile in Colombia under the protection of the right-wing government of Ivan Duque, and is accused of authoring the..…
In contrast, the immigration of neighbors from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Antilles, was stigmatized.. The situation worsened with the death of President Chávez in spring 2013, and loss of legitimacy and hegemony of the governing party. ..…
Some supported the terrorist Farc movement in Colombia. Others played a fundamental role in the rising of the late Colonel Hugo Chavez to power in Venezuela. ..…
Colombian paramilitaries have crossed regularly into Venezuela to commit murder and mayhem and, on one occasion, to attempt to kill Chávez. ... The United States maintains a strong military presence in Colombia, complete with airbases. ..…
Rebel documents seized from assassinated FARC leaders in 2011 show that the Venezuelan government allowed the FARC to use jungle territory bordering Colombia to hide. The United States sanctioned Hugo Chávez’s regime that year for aiding terrorists. . . . . ..…
Yet, not only that an enemy of the United States and its closest ally Colombia was being armed by Russia but many of these weapons ended in the hands of the subversive Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). . By the same token, in October 2010 the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez..…
With help from Hugo Chávez in West and Rafael Correa in Southeast, FARC had Colombia on path to ruin.. ..…
Moreover, they argued, unlike the authoritarian Chávez, Uribe was a champion of democracy. They even seized upon the parapolitics revelations as proof of his credentials: in Uribe’s Colombia, they claimed, no one was above the law. . ..…
Venezuela has moved backward by the decisions of Chavez and, in many ways, is the most-serious case in Americas, ... Colombia is included again in the 2009 report Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia... ..…
Colombia, that leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has given systematic and intentional help to FARC calling that support a crime against humanity... ..…
Brownfield left in July to take over the diplomatic mission in Colombia. ... On at least two occasions, Chavez threatened to expel Brownfield, accusing him of meddling in Venezuela's affairs. ..…