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a rail line speeding nearly 100,000 people a day along a route
connecting Venezuela's main port, Puerto Cabello, with Valencia and the
country's other major central city, Maracay.She says it will be ready in
2012.Yet not a single section is complete after a decade of construction.The
railway may be the most visible symbol of unfulfilled promises in Chavez's
14 years as president. It is the heart of his ambitious plan
to create a network of lines across Venezuela, a nation that now
has a sum total of 40 kilometers (25 miles) of operating tracks.In
Maracay, three-story concrete pylons linked by monstrous girders parallel
Venezuela's main central highway. The elevated rail bed halts abruptly at
road crossings. There are phantom stations."This is going really slow,"
construction worker Anselmo Mendoza, 46, said while walking atop one section,
its steel bolts, plates and rebar coated with rust. "There isn't any
type of coordination."Mendoza has been on the job nine years. Most days,
he and his co-workers try to keep busy with work often unrelated
to actual construction.Billions have been spent so far on the 128-kilometer
(80-mile) project.Transportation Ministry spokesman Alexis Cabrera was asked
for information on construction delays and budgets. He said he would need
to ask the minister for permission, but didn't call back.At campaign rallies,
Capriles always rattles off a list of Chavez's unfinished projects.On Wednesday
night in
North Korea's new leader is using the threat of a nuclear strike
to get concessions on foreign aid rather than trying to trigger military
conflict, top U.S. intelligence officials told Congress Thursday.Director
of National Intelligence James Clapper told the House intelligence committee
that he thinks new North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is trying
to show the U.S., the world and his own people that he
is "firmly in control in North Korea," while attempting to maneuver the
international community into concessions in future negotiations."I don't
think...he has much of an endgame other than to somehow elicit recognition,"
and to turn the nuclear threat into "negotiation and to accommodation and
presumably for aid," Clapper said.Clapper said the intelligence community
believes the North would only use nuclear weapons to preserve the Kim
regime, but says they do not know how the regime defines that.Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel said at a different congressional hearing that he
does not believe North Korea, nor Iran, have the technical ability to
reach the continental U.S. with its nuclear weapons yet."Now does that mean
that won't have it or they can't have it or they're not
working on it?" Hagel said. "No. That's why this is a very
dangerous situation."Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, testifying
with Hagel before the House Armed Services Committee, would not say whether
North Korea has the capacity to arm a ballistic missile with
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">Venzuela's second city, Maracaibo, he mentioned one of the most
striking examples: A second bridge over the lake that bears the city's
name. Chavez laid the bridge's first stone in 2006. A year later,
he returned to lay the first stone a second time. Nothing more
has happened."They don't do planning," Celia Herrera, a civil engineering
professor at Central Venezuela University who advises Capriles, said of
the government.Another suspected reason for uncompleted projects: corruption."They've
said a ton of times that they are filling potholes, but it
turns out that they aren't filling anything," Herrera said of the government's
"Fiesta of Asphalt" program.Maduro has generally avoided references to public
works on the campaign trail, although on a stop this week in
Apure state, he did apologize for a delayed highway extension, maternity
hospital and bridge, promising to finish them.Beneath one section of the
unfinished elevated railway in Maracay, a handful of men sat idly on
a bulldozer and two dump trucks under a punishing sun on a
recent day. Then they pushed some dirt around and moved debris beneath
the rails' shadow.But there was evidence of something else that has created
discontent and has made nearby resident Santiago Alvarez, a father of five,
lose patience with the government.He warned a visitor about the danger from
drug dealers and crooked cops, pointing to a spot beneath the railway
about a block away."They killed a guy there
rsation about how to get China to
join the United States in putting pressure on Pyongyang, according to a
senior administration official who was present. The debate encapsulates
America's struggle to come up with a strategy based on
sticks, carrots or a combination of both to convince
China to police its own backyard.As Kerry heads to East Asia for
his first time as America's top diplomat, some progress has been made
in convincing Beijing, North Korea's biggest benefactor, to start getting
tough with its neighbor. The question is whether it will make a
difference.North Korea's government agency said Thursday that it has "powerful
striking means" on standby for a launch, amid speculation in Seoul and
Washington that North Korea will test-fire a mid-range missile designed
to reach the U.S. territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean. It
was the latest warning from the North, which launched a long-range rocket
in December and conducted an underground nuclear test in February.For years,
Washington has been putting its hopes in Beijing to rein in the
provocative behavior and combative rhetoric from North Korea. China has
more leverage over the North than any other country, having massively boosted
trade ties with the isolated regime in recent years and maintaining close
military relations.But the U.S. has been frustrated by the reaction from
a government that in many ways has different priorities. China, analysts
and officials often say, f
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