Venezuela
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  • Chavez's heir to take over divided Venezuela

    Nicolas Maduro has won Venezuela's presidential election by a stunningly narrow margin.

    • Venezuelan president-elect Nicolas Maduro: there should be no doubt about the result [The Telegraph]
    • Venezuela's Maduro, Ex-Bus Driver, Now to Set His Own Route [The New York Times]
  • Supporters hold a toddler wearing a Maduro-style mustache at the closing campaign rally for Venezuela's acting President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday April 11, 2013.
    Venezuela votes in the post-Chavez era

    Just a month after the longtime president died from cancer, the first election will test his grip on the political culture.

    LAST UPDATE : Apr 13, 2013, 6:03 PM EDT
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  • Supporters ride a motorcycle to the closing campaign rally for ruling party presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, April 11, 2013.
    The well-greased vote machine Chavez left

    Extensive campaign arm assembled over 14 years of the former president's rule could be vital to his hand-picked sucessor's election hopes.

    LAST UPDATE : Apr 12, 2013, 4:08 PM EDT
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  • Venezuela’s citizen security looms

    The Ministry of the Interior and Justice has reported that approximately 3,400 murders occurred nationally between January and April of 2013.Americas,Caracas,Colombia,Henrique Capriles,Hugo Chavez,Nicolas Maduro,South America,Venezuela,W. Alex Sanchez

    Published Date : Apr 11, 2013, 3:46 PM EDT
  • Lightning campaign for Malaysian oppo

    How Malaysia's marginalized parties can play catch-up in an environment where the ruling coalition has a stranglehold not only on public institutions but also the national media is tough to envision.Asia-Pacific,Anwar Ibrahim,Asia,Barisan Nasional,Hugo Chavez,Israel,Mahathir Mohamad,Malaysia,Najib Razak,National Front,Venezuela,Matt Taylor

    Published Date : Apr 11, 2013, 10:11 AM EDT
  • Opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles speaks to supporters at a campaign rally in Maracay, Venezuela, Thursday, April 4, 2013.
    Venezuela's Capriles: Maduro won't last

    Opposition candidate promises to reduce foreign aid in order to bolster the homefront, and distance the country from human rights violators.

    LAST UPDATE : Apr 06, 2013, 12:12 AM EDT
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  • This undated promotional image released by Warner Bros. Studios shows actors, from left, Luis Gerardo Mendez, Juan Pablo Gil, Gonzalo Vega and Karla Souza in the movie "Nosotros los Nobles," or “We are the Nobles.” The Mexican riches-to-rags movie has opened to packed theaters in a country with one of the world's widest income gaps, and a love for laughing at misfortune. In Mexico, 10 percent of the people held nearly 40 percent of the wealth in 2010, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America.
    Comedy on Mexico income gap a big screen hit

    The Mexican riches-to-rags movie, "We are the Nobles" has opened to packed theaters in a country with one of the world's widest income gaps.

    LAST UPDATE : Apr 05, 2013, 12:43 PM EDT
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  • A woman and her two children visit a people's shrine built in honor of late Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez at the "23 de Enero" or "23rd of January" slum in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. The shrine, named “Saint Hugo Chavez del 23”, has been visited by tens of thousands of Venezuelans to pay homage to a president for some, a saint for others. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
    Shrine to mourn and celebrate Chavez

    Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have paid homage at the "Saint Hugo Chavez del 23" shrine in Caracas.

    LAST UPDATE : Apr 04, 2013, 11:49 AM EDT
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