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Although Hugo Chavez has a somewhat indeterminate legacy so far as I can tell, mixing wonderful and awful in relatively equal amounts, he has a way of doing politics that's fallen out of style around here.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday blamed Washington for orchestrating his dispute with Mexico's president over U.S. free-trade accords, but he insisted Mexico would have to resolve the dispute.

Wearing a broad-rimmed sombrero, Chavez sang Mexican ballads with a mariachi band before thousands of his supporters at the end of a march to back him days after Venezuela and Mexico withdrew their ambassadors in a diplomatic standoff.

Full article here. A summary of Chavez' career can be found at the BBC.