CARACAS, Venezuela — In the 15 months since Hugo Chávez's demise, his successor, Nicolás Maduro, has kept the Chávez enterprise rolling, sticking to the comandante's policy prescriptions like an executor carrying out a will.
"Prepare yourself, we are coming for you," President Nicolás Maduro warned demonstrators in an address to thousands of soldiers gathered in support of the president on March 15. He then played John Lennon's song, "Give Peace a Chance."
The president of Costa Rica's Central Bank warned Johnny Araya’s economic team Tuesday after the National Liberation Party blamed the rival Citizen Action Party's possible victory at the polls on April 6 for recent volatility in the Costa Rican currency, the colón.
CARACAS, Venezuela – On aisle seven, among the diapers and fabric softener, the socialist dreams of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez looked as ragged as the toilet paper display.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is turning to an army brigadier general to run the economy, two months after using troops to help control prices and slow the world's fastest inflation.
