The politicizing of Haiti
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Hugo Chávez plays traffic cop, Naomi Campbell goes to The Hague, and Venus puts the 'French' in French Open
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As food rots in ports, the president blames grocers and seizes stores. But will voters buy his line?
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The beginning of the end of President Hugo Chávez’s decade-long grip on power in Venezuela
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Gov. Henri Falcón may be the opposition’s great hope in the 2012 presidential election
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Kim Campbell schools the U.S. right, Naomi Campbell’s ‘Frost-Nixon moment,’ and Nabokov was right
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P.K. Subban's winning streak, Hugo Chávez weighs in on everything, and what LiLo can learn from Blago
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First images of Venezuelan president since emergency operation
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Hugo Chávez looks to Castro for care, J-Lo and Marc Anthony call it quits, and Shaq gets a new job
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Communicating with his people—while seeking cancer treatment in Castro's Cuba
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Is the Venezuelan president really spooked by the markets or just shoring up finances?
View ArticleU.S. calls Hugo Chavez cancer speculation ‘reprehensible’
State department responds after Chavez suggests the US might have the technology to induce cancer
View ArticleThe end of Hugo Chavez
New documents purportedly show the Venezuelan president is seriously ill
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Garth Brooks resurfaces, Jonathan Franzen's new snit, and Christine Sinclair sends Canada to London
View ArticleA man to unseat Chávez?
Henrique Capriles represents an alliance of 20 opposition political parties and movements
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Nationalization of oil companies will earn points on the home front, but at what cost?
View ArticleHenrique Capriles Radonski: Giving Chavez a run for his petrodollars
Our Q&A with the Venezuelan presidential candidate
View ArticleHugo Chávez, strongman on the run
There's an unfamiliar challenge in his bid for a fourth term as president: a legitimate political opponent
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'Fat girls,' ice dancers and a sweet simian with a sense of fashion
View ArticleCitizens celebrate as Hugo Chavez makes surprise return to Venezuela
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a surprise return home Monday after receiving treatment for...
View ArticleVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez dead at 58
Chavez struggled to recover after cancer diagnosis in 2011
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OTTAWA – As he prepared to meet Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for the first...
View ArticleHugo Chavez: The sad irony of his years in power
That Venezuela is split at the moment of his death is the result of his own polarizing politics
View ArticleWhat politicians are saying about Hugo Chavez’s death
"I hope the people of Venezuela can now build for themselves a better, brighter future"
View ArticleHow to distil reaction to the death of Hugo Chavez
Tease the day: Newspapers do what they can to assess the legacy of the enigmatic Venezuelan
View ArticleHugo Chavez to be embalmed, put in military museum for public viewing
When the funeral for former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez ends Friday, the leader won’t...
View ArticleMahmoud Ahmadinejad hugs Hugo Chávez’s mom, ignites controversy
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s embrace of Hugo Chávez’s grieving mother created a storm back home. A...
View ArticleIs this Hugo Chavez’s heir?
The comandante’s chosen successor launches his campaign for the presidency
View ArticleChavez’s hand-picked successor Nicolas Maduro elected Venezuelan president
Runner-up Henrique Capriles calls for a recount amid close results
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The Nintendo Zapper (Rob Boudon/Flickr) 1. Remember those orange Nintendo Zapper guns from the 1990s? Apparently they were okay for millions of children to use, but they’re too offensive to be viewed...
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View ArticleThe death of ‘Chavismo’ in Venezuela
Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters Caracas-based bond trader Russ Dallen looks for small signals with which to gauge Venezuela and its economy. He found one last year when he ran out of toilet paper and...
View ArticleVenezuela collapses and nobody cares
Security forces clash with people trying to reach Miraflores presidential palace to protest against the severe food and medicine shortages, in Caracas on June 2, 2016. (Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images)...
View ArticleHow Donald Trump resembles five strongmen not named Putin
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is greeted by supporters on his way to the airport to travel to Cuba, on Feb. 24, 2012. (Leo Ramirez/AFP/Getty Images) Donald Trump’s bromance with Vladimir Putin seems...
View ArticleOur misplaced faith in political Messiahs
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Charleston Civic Center on May 5, 2016 in Charleston, West Virginia. (Mark Lyons/Getty Images) From the interventionist left to the authoritarian...
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