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Hampden Macbeth

Journalist

2 articles

Rumsfeld and Rice on Chávez: But Where’s the Beef?

by Hampden Macbeth

Caracas (Venezuela) | 12 September 2005

– U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld visited Paraguay and Peru this week and reiterated claims that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had been “unhelpful[ly]” involved in the ouster of Bolivian President Carlos Mesa. If this is true, where is the evidence?
– U.S. Secretary of State (...)

The Not So Odd Couple: Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro

by Hampden Macbeth

Caracas (Venezuela) | 22 June 2005

– In late 2004, President Hugo Chávez nearly doubled Venezuela’s daily oil barrel deliveries to Cuba and Havana doubled the number of healthcare professionals and teachers it was stationing in Venezuela.
– The ongoing relationship between Chávez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro began with Chávez’s (...)