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Since his landslide election win in December, Bolivian President Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian, has turned South America's poorest nation into a hemispheric player. His recent nationalization of Bolivia's oil and natural-gas reserves has made him, along with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, a leader of a leftist surge in Latin American politics. It has also put Morales at odds with the U.S., which he is scheduled to visit in June. Morales, 46, talked with TIME's Tim Padgett and Jean Friedman-Rudovsky last week at the presidential palace in the Bolivian capital...
...President George W. Bush has not jumped to use military means against Iran, while Merkel has been stressing that everything needs to be done to find a diplomatic solution and a consensus among the major powers. Oliver Hauss Dortmund, Germany time's story on Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez made plain that the country's 26 million people are subjected to the desires of a tyrant. With all the loans, oil discounts and financing deals that Chávez grants to Venezuela's neighbors by way of increasing his political muscle, he has truly given away the shirt...
...also been a great opportunity for hardworking guys who run countries that are on less than chummy terms with the U.S. Hugo Chávez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Presidents of Venezuela and Iran, respectively, have benefited from the rhetoric of U.S. foreign policy. The Administration's confrontational response to Iran's nuclear policy and Venezuela's anticapitalism is actually making those countries richer and their rulers more popular by driving up the price of oil, a commodity they possess much of. In Venezuela the self-proclaimed Bolivarian revolutionary Chávez has taken state control of some oil fields and threatened...
...However, Morales’ plane for the threecontinent tour was not courtesy of Lula or Bachelet, but thanks to Pat Robertson’s best friend: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. He leads the other Latin American gauche, and, far too often, the only one visible from the United States to Europe. His oil has bought him warplanes from Spain, guns from Russia, unsustainable welfare to calm poor masses at home, and, not surprisingly, the “unconditional support” of countries in the region. After 9/11, the Bush administration chose to take its ships and interests...
...this context, Chávez has willingly become the Emir of the region, buying off Ecuadorian assets, Argentine debt, and Cuban doctors. In fact, his “brothers” in the region often adopt his dubious means, and not only in the rhetoric uttered by Morales. Argentine President Néstor Kichner has greatly benefited from a purposefully weak peso, high commodity prices, and huge export dividends resulting from “redistributing” taxes. However, although the federal state grows richer, that money is used to buy off regional caudillos and the poorer classes continue...