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Girish Gupta

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Girish Gupta is a British freelance journalist based in Caracas, Venezuela. His work has taken him all over the region, covering Mexico’s drug wars in Ciudad Juárez, Colombia’s paramilitaries in its northern jungles and maverick Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s ups and downs as he battles cancer before elections in October 2012. He also writes for Reuters, TIME and many other outlets.
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Mexico’s Chapo Guzman named world’s most powerful drug trafficker
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Iran’s Ahmadinejad, Fidel Castro discuss war with Israel, US
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Chavez’s 10-hour speech: I’ll honor election results
Business, Finance & Economics
ExxonMobil’s loss in Venezuela sobers investors
Politics
Chavez swears in controversial defense minister
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Britain, Argentina ramp up rhetoric over Falklands
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Over 500 deaths last year inside Venezuelan prisons
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Leopoldo Lopez, Venezuelan opposition candidate, steps aside
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Hugo Chávez’s daughter poses with US dollars
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Armed children for Chavez in Venezuela?
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Mexican Ambassador in Venezuela’s “express kidnap”
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Colombia capital bans firearms
Business, Finance & Economics
Yet another minister resigns from Brazil government
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Josefina Vázquez Mota picked for Mexico presidential candidate
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Major Colombian paramilitary chief captured in Venezuela
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Argentina to complain to UN on British Falklands action
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Meet Henrique Capriles, Chavez’s first real challenger
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Henrique Capriles to take on Hugo Chavez in Venezuela elections
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Pro-Chávez forces attack Henrique Capriles Radonski
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Venezuela government questions primary election result
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Felipe Calderon pleads to US: ‘No more weapons’
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Deadly Mexican prison riot a cover for gang escape
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Venezuela: Tough fight ahead for opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski
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Venezuela awaits Chavez’s return from operation in Cuba
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Mexico election: Vazquez Mota closing the gap
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Chavez needs further cancer treatment
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Joe Biden meets Latin American leaders, won’t back down on legalization
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Chavez to return to Venezuela next week- Santos
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Mexican authorities come close to capture of drug boss Chapo Guzman
Agence France-Presse
Prison uprising continues in Venezuela
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The worrisome absence of Hugo Chavez
Agence France-Presse
Hugo Chavez: the boy from humble beginnings in Sabaneta
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Chavez on death of Gaddafi, a “martyr”
Business, Finance & Economics
Chavez eyes luxury resort for next grab
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Guyana goes to the polls
Business, Finance & Economics
Chavez brings home his gold
Business, Finance & Economics
Guyana’s gold rush turns dangerous
Politics
Second Chevron oil spill in Brazil halts production
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Hugo Chavez returns to Venezuela
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Venezuelan police kill Chilean diplomat’s daughter
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Venezuela government sees a plot to kill top opponent
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Major Mexico earthquake causes no deaths
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Hugo Chavez back in Cuba for radiotherapy
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Chavez, back from Cuba cancer treatment, is high in the polls
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In Venezuela’s prisons, inmates are the wardens
Business, Economics and Jobs
Brazil’s growth has a monkey on its back
Lifestyle
Venezuela: Why the big mausoleum, Mr. Chavez?
Politics
Chavez and Ahmadinejad, an affair to remember
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Venezuela: Chavez and Capriles commence battle for presidency
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UK-Ecuador stalemate over Assange closer to being broken
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Protesters pledge support to Assange outside British Embassy in Ecuador
Business, Economics and Jobs
Is Venezuela about to open up to foreign oil investment?
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Another refugee for Ecuador, another nightmare for Belarus
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Venezuela arrests another American
Agence France-Presse
Venezuela’s Yanomami massacre mystery
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Venezuela: This gritty, clandestine video could ensure Chavez’s re-election
Conflict
Venezuela nabs Colombian kingpin ‘Loco’ Barrera
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Venezuela: Opposition shootings cast a shadow on election
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What Venezuela’s election means for Washington
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On Location Video: Caracas murder rate looms as Venezuelans vote