Moisés Naím

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace / The Atlantic

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Moisés Naím is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a contributing editor to the Atlantic. He is the author of several books, including Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy and The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be.

A former editor of Foreign Policy magazine, from 1989-1990 Naim served as Venezuelan Minister of Industry and Trade.

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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.

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