It had been adopted by an Armenian American benefactor a few years ago.

Cuba s octogenarian ruling brothers cannot last forever. Something may have to give on the island, especially if their Venezuelan benefactor is no longer in power.

And it is He Who sends down the rain when they have despaired, and spreads out His mercy and He is the Benefactor, the Most Praiseworthy.

And it is He Who sends down the rain when they have despaired, and spreads out His mercy and He is the Benefactor, the Most Praiseworthy.

They will say, Exalted are You! You, O Allah , are our benefactor not them. Rather, they used to worship the jinn most of them were believers in them.

They will say, Exalted are You! You, O Allah , are our benefactor not them. Rather, they used to worship the jinn most of them were believers in them.

Since World War II, military considerations have barely factored into Japanese policy, and official development assistance, which began as war reparations, has placed international imperatives above domestic concerns. But, after playing benefactor to the world for 60 years, Japan s diplomatic and crisis management capabilities have been severely weakened.

Indeed, what was good enough for Santa Evita, as the Argentine writer Tomás Eloy Martínez called her, might be good enough for Chávez. Like the dying tyrant in Gabriel García Márquez s The Autumn of the Patriarch, who righteously lamented the fate that would befall the poor after his passing, Chávez will remain for years to come the saintly benefactor, martyr, and redeemer of the destitute in the eyes of the Venezuelan masses.