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Sep 22 2009, Craig

Talk like a communist, walk like a democrat. That has been the paradoxical strategy pursued by Latin America’s new radical left — at least until now. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will gush effusively in the presence of Fidel Castro one moment,...

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