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  • noun A follower of Hugo Chávez

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Examples

  • It's no different now than it was before Chavez ... it's just that the map, the geography has been shifted from residential opposition hideouts in La Lagunita to new cliques/mafias/etc., that have proliferated in the wake of governmental change to new regime qualified as "Chavista" as opposed to its predecessors now in opposition.

    Make no mistake about it, there's an all-out war going on out there! 2009

  • Unpopular as it may appear to 'Chavista' ears, the concentration power to the center of Venezuelan politics and its economy have only created a concentration of incompetencies at all levels of newly-centralizing government ... and the cancer is already more than obvious!

    Make no mistake about it, there's an all-out war going on out there! 2009

  • Seemingly ignoring the fact that a large number of 'Chavista' voters have build up a formidable electoral rejection of his army comrade-in-arms, Rangel Gomez, Chavez insists that the weekend event was an attempt to recover the Governor's somewhat waning image ...

    Chavez urges opposition activists to mind their tongues! PSUV debate should not serve to give flesh to the vultures! 2008

  • Adriana Lucero, a 56-year-old waitress, described herself as a "Chavista" but standing outside her wooden shack, she raged about the lack of water and sewers, saying the president "should come and see all of these barrios."

    LocalNews8.com - Local News 8 - Headlines 2010

  • Adriana Lucero, a 56-year-old waitress, described herself as a "Chavista" but standing outside her wooden shack, she raged about the lack of water and sewers, saying the president

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

  • "Chavista" governor, Fransisco Rangel Gomez, and the labor minister, who tried to impose a referendum on the company's final pay offer.

    Venezuela Analysis 2009

  • 'When you express your opinion against the government, you are a' Chavista '(a follower of left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez), you are a terrorist.

    Global Issues News Headlines 2009

  • It is not credible to promise support for democracy in Latin America—and then score Honduras for stopping a Chavista putsch while playing every excuse to delay ratification of a free trade agreement with Colombia.

    A Republican Foreign Policy Bret Stephens 2011

  • He also evaluates the roots of populist movements and its negative consequences in Argentina, while denouncing the false promises and propaganda apparatus behind the Chavista regime and the grave mistakes committed by the Cuban Revolution demythologizing the figure of Che Guevara.

    Twelve Months of Reading 2011

  • Then I guess the Chavezistas owe a large debt of gratitude to Ken Starr and the House Republicans for limiting the capacity of our President to influence world events. and he did, in fact, prevent a Chavista military clique from seizing power in Ecuador in January 2000.

    Matthew Yglesias » Chavez Changes His Tune Faced With Obama’s Popularity 2009

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