The long slide: is Hugo Chávez losing his touch?
By First • May 20th, 2008 • Category: The FeedThere was a dream-like quality to the scene. The blistering sun, the audience of government officials in red T-shirts nodding solemnly, the group of village women supporters waist-deep in the ocean blowing kisses to the president, the TV cameras zooming in on my perspiring face.






