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Nobel Price winner Óscar Arias: Chávez reelection was no surprise
In Venezuela, "some 60% of the income of Pdvsa (Venezuelan state-run oil company) is controlled by the President (Hugo Chávez). Thus, social programs are identified with the president rather than the Government. So, for people it was very important to ensure that Chávez remained in office," explained the former Costa Rican president
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"I always believed that Chávez would pull off victory. The humblest people of Venezuela recognize the effort Chávez has made to provide relevant social programs to the most deprived sectors of the Venezuelan population," said Arias in an interview released on Wednesday by Costa Rican weekly newspaper Semanario Universidad, DPA cited.
In Venezuela, "some 60% of the income of Pdvsa (Venezuelan state-run oil company) is controlled by the President (Hugo Chávez). Thus, social programs are identified with the president rather than the Government. So, for people it was very important to ensure that Chávez remained in office," explained the former Costa Rican president.
"That ensured Chávez reelection. He will continue being an autocrat," though, commented Arias.
Translated by Jhean Cabrera
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Chapo's drug traffic network
Luis Jiménez Alfaro seems to have hidden under the rocks. The last time he was seen was on April 2006 walking calmly around Simón Bolívar International Airport of Maiquetía, located nearby Caracas. At that time, more than five tons of cocaine arrived in Mexico in an airplane which took off from Venezuela, and his name featured as a missing piece of the puzzle of one of the most massive drug shipments that has been witnessed in the Western Hemisphere.
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