Venezuela without Hugo Chavez
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Venezuela's vice president has declared 7 days of mourning for Hugo Chavez, who died yesterday in Caracas. The leaders of other Latin American countries are arriving already to pay their respects. During surgery and chemotherapy treatments in Cuba, Chavez hadn't been seen in public for months. And the nature of his cancer has not been revealed. Nathan Crooks is Caracas Bureau Chief for Bloomberg News. Also, with the votes still being counted after Monday's presidential election, Kenya is a nation on edge. Will the new leader be a man indicted for crimes against humanity?
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Venezuela Mourns Chavez ()
Venezuela's vice president has declared seven days of mourning for Hugo Chavez, who died yesterday in Caracas. The leaders of other Latin American countries are arriving already to pay their respects. During surgery and chemotherapy treatments in Cuba, Chavez hadn't been seen in public for months, and the nature of his cancer has not been revealed. Nathan Crooks is Caracas Bureau Chief for Bloomberg News.
Guests:
- Nathan Crooks: Bloomberg News, @nmcrooks
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Main Topic
Hugo Chavez: His Life and Legacy ()
During fourteen years as President, Hugo Chavez used Venezuela's vast oil resources to help the poor, which made him a hero to masses of people. It also earned the ongoing opposition of the previous ruling class while, in this country, Chavez was demonized as anti-capitalist and anti-American. What's the mood today in Caracas? What about oil, Castro's Cuba and relations with the United States?
Guests:
- Juan Cristobal Nagel: Universidad de Los Andes, @juannagel
- Moises Naim: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, @moisesnaim
- Ann Louise Bardach: Newsweek/Daily Beast
- Jeff Davidow: Cohen Group
Links:
- Nagel's 'Blogging the Revolution: Caracas Chronicles and the Hugo Chávez Era'
- Naim's 'The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be'
- Bardach on Castro, Chávez and the last stand of the most notorious revolutionaries in the Americas
Reporter's Notebook
Kenya Tenses as Election Results Come In ()
After Kenya's presidential election in 2007, claims of vote rigging led to the deaths of more than 1000 people. When it was over, Uhuru Kenyatta was named deputy prime minister of a coalition government — but he was also indicted by the International Criminal Court for inciting the violence. After Monday's presidential election, Kenyatta still leads in the vote count. His opponent is his ostensible boss, Prime Minister Raila Odinga. We hear the background and the prospects for violence.
Guests:
- Bronwyn Bruton: Atlantic Council
- Calestous Juma: Harvard University, @calestous
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