Governance
Monday, June 9, 2008 - 00:00
Hugo Chavez again overreached. On May 28, a spine-chilling intelligence decree went into effect. After a week of public uproar and the prospect of mass demonstrations, he withdrew the decree.
Ostensibly issued to deflect national-security threats, the
Monday, April 21, 2008 - 00:00
El triunfo de Lugo pone fin al monopolio del poder por el conservador Partido Colorado, que durante 61 anos goberno al Paraguay con dictadores militares y presidentes civiles, con exclusion y persecucion de otras fuerzas politicas.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 00:00
Venezuela's National Assembly, dominated by allies of President Hugo Chavez, gave unanimous initial approval Tuesday to constitutional reforms that would allow him to run for re-election and possibly govern for decades
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 00:00
Mr. Chavez’s plan to allow himself to run for re-election as many times as he wants — to achieve his stated goal of governing until the 200th anniversary of Venezuelan independence in 2021 — could lock Venezuela in the grip of an all-powerful stron