which offers a muddled explanation of the nation's unraveling. And it assiduously avoids calling Chávez what he was: a socialist. Turkewitz describes Chávez (quoting various observers ...

Hated by the entrenched classes, Hugo Chavez will live forever in history.” But it’s not enough to simply point out the enduring folly of socialism’s apologists. We will always have Useful ...

Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro stressed Wednesday that Bolivarian leader Hugo Chávez had not died. He became “immortal and ...

Chavez, who called Jesus Christ "the greatest socialist in history," said "Venezuelan socialism â€Ã‚¦ is the only path to the redemption of our peoples, the salvation of our fatherland".

The socialist government gave billions of dollars ... purported reduction — in Venezuela’s poverty rate under Chavez as their main evidence. The World Bank figures (based, inevitably, on ...

The coup was Chavez’s Bay of Pigs. If that botched attempt at a U.S.-supported invasion of Cuba gave Fidel Castro the necessary epic for the “socialist construction” of Cuban, the failed ...

An opposition coalition made big advances in a September legislative election and hopes to put a brake on Chavez's self-styled “21st century socialism” when it takes up 40% of the seats in the ...

DOESCHER: So, Maduro was vowed to take over exactly where Chavez left off with these socialist, the hard-core socialist agenda. QUINTANA: Well, that's exactly it. Chavez brought to Latin America ...

CARACAS (Reuters) - One of the central mysteries of Venezuela's slow-motion collapse: Why does the military continue to support Nicolas Maduro, the president who has led the once-prosperous South ...