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Nov 6 2009, Marco Villa

Venezuela’s authoritarian leader is not cutting his own power, just the literal power of millions of Venezuelans. The majority who voted for Chavez twice and for his constitutional amendment that suspended term limits are reaping what they have...

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A worker walks in a milk plant at the state-run Los Andes dairy company in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 22, 2008. Venezuela’s government has bought a private chain of meat packing plants and the major Los Andes dairy company as it seeks to...