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Thousands of Venezuelans protested in the capital on Saturday to demand the Supreme Court overturn a “blacklist” blocking key opponents of President Hugo Chavez from running in upcoming elections.Chanting “freedom!” and waving Venezuelan flags, the...
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The Central Bank of Venezuela has announced that the Consumer Price Index for the Caracas Metropolitan Area (CPI-CMA) grew by 2.1% in June, the same as in May, bringing...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been the clear winner so far in Honduras’ political crisis, leading the hemispheric condemnation of the military ouster June...
made popular Jul 8 2009
Julio Rodriguez was on a sales call at a clinic in this slum overlooking Caracas recently when he heard four gunshots go off nearby.
It was business as usual for Mr....
made popular Jul 7 2009
Globovisión has long been attacked by Venezuelan leftist autocrat Hugo Chavez. The station’s owner, Guillermo Zuloaga, is no fan of Chavez and it is clear in the...
made popular Jun 29 2009
With the advent of a new U.S. Administration and the appointment of a new director, one would have expected Reporters Without Borders to desist from their propaganda...
made popular Jun 27 2009
When Hugo Chávez became president of Venezuela in 1999, I was very optimistic. After all, I had watched this oil-rich nation’s tragic economic collapse first...
made popular Jun 26 2009
Dreaming of a new life, Ramon Barrera came to El Charcote, a vast farm in northwestern Venezuela, several years after President Hugo Chavez’s populist government had...
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Dreaming of a new life, Ramón Barrera came to El Charcote, a vast farm here in northwestern Venezuela, several years after President Hugo Chávez’s populist...
made popular Jun 20 2009
American leftists seem not to notice, but Hugo Chavez’s “21st Century Socialism” is not going as planned. I have written extensively on the horror...
made popular Jun 19 2009
Venezuela’s Health Ministry said Friday it banned sales of Coca-Cola Zero because the company failed to declare that the no-calorie soft drink uses an artificial...
made popular Jun 13 2009
For the past decade, analysts have debated whether the administration of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez is democratic. This debate now seems settled.
Over the past...
made popular Jun 11 2009
Expropriation—the confiscation of privately-owned assets by the government—was the dominant political risk of the 1970s, but has since become confined to a small...
made popular Jun 9 2009
Amid repeated threats by President Hugo Chavez to shut down the Globovision television station, government prosecutors Thursday indicted the station’s main owner...
made popular Jun 5 2009
President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday alleged that U.S. intelligence agencies were behind a purported assassination plot that prevented him from visiting El...
made popular Jun 3 2009
Earlier this month, on the same day that a law was passed sanctioning the nationalization of companies working in Venezuela that provide services to the oil industry,...
made popular Jun 2 2009
They say prison life can be lonely, but not for Raúl Isaías Baduel, Venezuela’s former army chief and once one of President Hugo Chávez’s confidants, who was...
made popular May 30 2009
Hundreds of opponents of President Hugo Chavez marched in support of press freedom in Venezuela on Wednesday, two years after his government refused to renew the...
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Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan President, has tightened the noose on Globovisión, the last opposition news channel broadcasting freely in the country, amid threats to...
made popular May 25 2009
I recently came across a news item from Tunisia Online News [which may be funded by the government] that struck me as odd.
The article reported that Tunisia has been...
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Sixteen Venezuelan soldiers and a civilian were killed when a military helicopter crashed Sunday near the Colombian border, the state news agency reported. A brigadier...
made popular May 4 2009
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Venezuela’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a list barring hundreds of candidates suspected of corruption from running in elections is constitutional, despite...
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Venezuela’s Roman Catholic Church is condemning efforts to ban 400 potential candidates _ most from the opposition _ from running in upcoming elections.Church...
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President Hugo Chavez defended Venezuela’s top anti-corruption official on Tuesday for barring roughly 400 potential candidates _ most from the opposition _ from...
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Venezuela’s national electoral council has dealt a setback to President Hugo Chavez’s foes by tentatively accepting a blacklist barring nearly 400 potential...
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Venezuela’s national electoral council has dealt a setback to President Hugo Chavez’s foes by tentatively accepting a blacklist barring more than 400...
made popular Jun 19 2008
As per South African law a person cannot be blacklisted after his debt expires. As per Stephan Logan of Logan Attorneys: Unless the creditor obtained judgement within...
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Leopoldo Lopez, mayor of Chacao, center, raises his arms during Mothers’ Day celebrations in Caracas, Sunday, May 11, 2008. Lopez is among hundreds of opposition politicians who have been prohibited from running in upcoming gubernatorial and municipal...
