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- Chavistas
- June 23, 2008
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- In this issue of the magazine, Jon Lee Anderson writes about Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela. “Chávez’s hemispheric ambitions have made him one of the most compelling, audacious, and polarizing figures in the world,” Anderson writes. Here is a portfolio of photographs by Samantha Appleton of Chávez and his supporters.
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Hugo Chávez speaks at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela. “Chávez has a gospel preacher’s deftness with language and an actor’s ability to evoke emotions,” Anderson writes. “Within a single soliloquy, he comes up with rhymes, breaks into song, riffs on his own words, gets angry, cracks jokes, and loops back to where he started.”