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Is President Hugo Chavez Struggling With His Own Budget?

The Venezuelan government has had a change of heart: just two days after announcing that it would end a controversial program to provide free home heating oil to low-income Americans, it decided to continue with the aid. That's good news for the 200,000 households in 23 states that got free fuel but the suspension of the program -- if only for two days -- signals to some a decline in power by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. "He's just running out of money," said Mark Falcoff, a Latin America... Full Story
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