La Venezuela de Hugo Chávez será la sede de lo que se anuncia como el acto fundacional de la Conferencia de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC) entre el 2 y el 3 diciembre, y que tiene como escenario de dicha cita la base militar más grande de Venezuela.
It is a safe bet that Daniel Ortega will be Nicaragua’s next president on November 6. As leader of the disciplined Sandinista party, the 65-year-old former Marxist-Leninist rebel faces a fragmented and poorly funded opposition.
Venezuela’s authoritarian populist President Hugo Chávez announced that presidential elections will take place on October 7, 2012. Chávez, who continues to battle an unspecified cancer, is convinced he will win. In office since 1999, Chávez argues he must have another six years in order to install Socialism of the 21st Century, i.e. a slightly modernized version of Cuban communism.