Hugo Chavez

None of the news organizations commented on, nor appear to have inquired with Clinton or her staff, whether she is aware that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez won presidential elections in 1998, 2000, and 2006, survived a recall referendum in 2004, and accepted defeat in a constitutional reform referendum last year. Neither do the news organizations appear to have asked for Clinton's definition of "dictator" or "rogue regime," or by what definition Chávez or Venezuela would qualify.

The history of the armed conflict in Colombia is not only a history of war, but also one of missed opportunities for a negotiated solution. The recent cease-fire negotiation with the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group is a case in point. Initiated in the summer of 2005, the negotiations have reached a dead-end, and have lost momentum.

With an increasing number of presidential primaries occurring around the country in the very early part of 2008, those of us concerned with Latin America are forced into an earlier-than-ever examination of the candidates' stances on foreign policy. Though we might have expected that Latin America would be overshadowed entirely by the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, or emerge only in the context of immigration, hemispheric relations have come up surprisingly often in early campaigning. So what do the candidates talk about when they discuss Latin America? In a word, Chávez.

With an increasing number of presidential primaries occurring around the country in the very early part of 2008, those of

On Monday, April 15, the day after his dramatic return to power, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called for a “national

On Sunday, September 12, a month after failing to remove President Hugo Chávez from office in a recall referendum, Venezuela’s

The continued ability of president Hugo Chávez to carry out significant reforms in the face of U.S. hostility and an

The ongoing deliberations of an elected Assembly charged with rewriting Venezuela's Constitution (see "Venezuelans Give Chávez Control of Constituent Assembly,"

This piece was published in the May/June 2000 issue of the NACLA Report. At dusk, Carlos Andrés Pérez walked off the plane that

This past December 8, a retired lieutenant colonel named Hugo Chávez Frías, the leader of a failed military coup in

This piece was published in the May/June 2000 issue of the NACLA Report. On December 15, 1999, as Venezuelans voted to ratify the

Until the late 1990s, Venezuela’s leaders routinely persecuted the country’s community media. Homes and offices that housed community radio stations