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When Venezuela’s Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz walked into a televised Cabinet meeting this week, President Hugo ChÁvez impishly asked, “So how’s the uranium for Iran going? For the atomic bomb.” ChÁvez was joking, but few were laughing outside...
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Venezuela on Thursday warned that the United States is aiming for a bigger military role in South America through an agreement with Colombia for expanded use of its...
made popular Nov 13 2009
Venezuela and Colombia differences won’t reach extreme situations and both neighbors will end up finding a way out through dialogue, says Nelson Jobim, the...
made popular Nov 12 2009
Brazil and the U.S. urged Colombia and Venezuela on Tuesday to talk out their differences after Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez ordered his military to prepare for a...
made popular Nov 11 2009
Conditions are fastly declining in Venezuela. Inflation is up, water and power supply are down, and Chavez is becoming more and more unpopular with his current rating...
made popular Nov 10 2009
President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered Venezuela’s military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying his country’s soldiers should be...
made popular Nov 9 2009
President Chávez came to power promising to harness Venezuela’s vast oil resources to create a 21st-century nation in which no one was deprived. Now, with water and...
made popular Nov 7 2009
Swine flu has killed seven members of an endangered Amazonian tribe, an indigenous rights organisation says.
Survival International said several hundred members of the...
made popular Nov 6 2009
Venezuela’s authoritarian leader is not cutting his own power, just the literal power of millions of Venezuelans. The majority who voted for Chavez twice and for...
made popular Nov 6 2009
Fredys Villanueva has abandoned his native Colombia for neighboring Venezuela. But he’s not quite like the hundreds of thousands of Colombians who have fled their...
made popular Nov 5 2009
One Friday at around midnight, on Villaflor Street, a favourite spot for gays and lesbians in the Venezuelan capital, Yonatan Matheus and Omar Marques noticed two...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Residents of the Venezuelan capital on Monday began to experience water rationing as part of a government preservation measure during a drought.
The rolling cuts to...
made popular Nov 4 2009
There was a love fest this Friday between presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Venezuelan Hugo Chavez during a visit the Brazilian leader paid to...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Brazil says it must protect its newfound oil and gas riches. Venezuela says the U.S. military might attack it. Colombia is worried by Venezuela, Ecuador is watching...
made popular Nov 3 2009
President Hugo Chavez’s government is relocating a gathering of top energy executives due to power outages.
The World Heavy Oil Congress says Venezuelan...
made popular Oct 31 2009
Brazil’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved Venezuela’s request to join the South American trade bloc Mercosur.
made popular Oct 30 2009
Venezuela’s autocrat Hugo Chavez has gone after the opposition, labor unions, media, term limits, courts, foreign businesses, domestic businesses and anything that...
made popular Oct 29 2009
Venezuela has announced the arrest of a number of people whom it accuses of being agents spying for Colombia.
Deputy Foreign Minister Francisco Arias Cardenas said...
made popular Oct 28 2009
Hugo Chavez’s support has declined in the polls as many Venezuelans say they are fed up with 27 percent inflation, a stagnant economy, faulty public services —...
made popular Oct 22 2009
The police in Venezuela are involved in 20% of all crimes committed in the country.
That startling admission was made by none other than the country’s interior...
made popular Oct 21 2009
He was the man who saved Hugo Chávez when all seemed lost. A coup had ousted Venezuela’s president and buried, it seemed, his leftist experiment.
General Raúl...
made popular Oct 13 2009
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North Korea has expelled U.N. monitors from its plutonium-making nuclear plant and plans to start reactivating it next week, rowing back from a 2007 deal to scrap its...
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A drug that can protect against the effects of radiation, whether from cancer treatment, a nuclear accident or an atomic bomb, is unveiled today.
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Sometimes described as a “virtual” nuclear weapons state, Japan has one of the world’s largest and most advanced civilian nuclear programs. It could...
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