Chávez Appoints Defense Minister as Candidate

October 31, 2012

On October 29 Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, appointed General Henry Rangel Silva, his minister of defense and close collaborator, to run as candidate for governor of Trujillo state (west). Regional elections will be held in December.

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For decades, Ecuador was perceived as an exception in a region plagued by drug trafficking, armed violence, and criminal capture of the state. While neighboring countries faced open wars between cartels and state forces, Ecuador seemed to remain on the sidelines of these dynamics. That image began to slowly crack and finally collapsed in January […]

Chávez Appoints Defense Minister as Candidate

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