Has Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez reached his peak? Will his political star begin to fade following his latest setbacks at the United Nations and his failure to get his protégés elected in Peru's and Ecuador's first-round elections?...Chavez's UN Fiasco raises issue: Has he peaked?, Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 10/20/2006
It's curious that you have to go to Miami to get a thought on this subject from a columnist. Chavez's political condition of course is of greater interest to people who fled (or whose parents and grandparents fled) from Cuba. Oppenheimer doesn't gloss the issue, however.
As long as the United States continues importing Venezuelan oil at its current pace -- $31.6 billion a year in 2005, and a projected $37 billion in 2006, according to U.S. Commerce Department figures -- Chávez will be down, but not out. Ironically, his megalomaniac dreams will be kept alive by the United States....(Chavez...,Oppeneheimer continued)
A columnist to pay attention to, Andres Oppenheimer!
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