CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has displayed canny brinkmanship in his nationalization drive toward Cuba-inspired socialism despite his image as an impulsive Latin American revolutionary.
The firebrand former soldier and declared enemy of both capitalism and Washington has put up $1.4 billion in the last week to take over U.S. companies' assets in his push to exert increasing state control over the OPEC nation.
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