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World Bank President Says President Hugo Chavez’s “Days Are Numbered”    : Information Clearing House

World Bank President Says President Hugo Chavez’s “Days Are Numbered”    : Information Clearing House
World Bank President Says President Hugo Chavez’s “Days Are Numbered”

By Paul Dobson

June 14, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- World Bank president Robert Zoellick said last week that the days of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez were "numbered" economically and politically following a wave of nationalisations.

Zoellick spoke ominously of "an opportunity to make the western hemisphere the first democratic hemisphere" by exploiting Chavez's hypothetical downfall to force "rapid policy changes" on other countries, naming Cuba and Nicaragua...

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