Whose Waterloo Is It? ; Deciphering Hugo's Outburst

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The biggest political story recently in the Spanish-speaking world has been a recent confrontation in Chile between the king of Spain and President Hugo Chavez, a democratically-elected Venezuelan demagogue who will soon try to circumvent his country's constitution to become dictator for life.

Mr. Chavez also has become the mouthpiece of a small axis of Latin American leaders, including President Fidel Castro of Cuba and President Evo Morales of Bolivia, who advocate Marxist socialism and virulent anti-Americanism.

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Whose Waterloo Is It? ; Deciphering Hugo's Outburst

This small gang should be contrasted with the many leaders of South and Central America (as well as Spain) who are left-of- center, but not so acutely socialist or bitterly opposed to the United States. An isolated, b...

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