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The group of Colombian reporters detained earlier this weekend by Venezuelan authorities arrived Sunday in Colombia after being deported by the neighboring country, where they had been conducting reporting activities on the alleged presence of an ELN...
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Tucked into forested hills in southwest Caracas, a red-brick housing complex for the poor is a testing ground for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s latest step...
made popular Jul 16 2010
Rory Carroll reports from Venezuela where, in an effort to sustain food production based on government-subsidised stores and restaurants, Hugo Chávez is criminalising...
made popular Jun 29 2010
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced Israel as a “genocidal” government on Sunday as he hosted Syrian President Bashar Assad on his first visit to...
made popular Jun 28 2010
Government foes accuse President Hugo Chavez of being behind the barring of several prominent candidates from Venezuela’s congressional elections, saying he is...
made popular Jun 3 2010
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega agreed on Thursday to expand bilateral projects funded by oil-rich Caracas.
After a six-hour meeting...
made popular Apr 16 2010
Venezuela’s President Chavez has told his people they will see sharp rises in some dairy food staples this year.
Pasteurized milk prices have already been raised...
made popular Apr 8 2010
Eight Colombians who own and run a business in Venezuela were arrested by Venezuelan authorities and charged with espionage, Bogota daily El Tiempo said...
made popular Apr 1 2010
Hugo Chavez and Alvaro Uribe left presidential decorum at the door on Monday, when the two got into a shouting match during a diplomatic meeting.
The South American...
made popular Feb 24 2010
Police used tear gas, plastic bullets and water cannons to scatter hundreds of students protesting against the government Thursday, while President Hugo Chavez’s...
made popular Feb 6 2010
A new slogan appearing on the T-shirts and banners of anti-government protesters in Venezuela sums up a growing sentiment about President Hugo Chavez after 11 years in...
made popular Feb 2 2010
An independent and free press is a vital element of any democracy, and the stifling of this freedom is of concern to the people of other nations as well as those being...
made popular Jan 29 2010
President Hugo Chavez says there’s too much capitalism on Venezuelan TV. So he’s urging producers to start making films and TV shows that stress socialist...
made popular Jan 14 2010
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says a U.S. military plane entered Venezuelan airspace and was met by his military’s F-16s, which escorted it out.
made popular Jan 11 2010
December is usually a festive month in Caracas. But this year, beneath the Christmas tree at a private school in the affluent Caracas neighborhood of Los Palos Grandes,...
made popular Dec 30 2009
President Hugo Chavez’s new National Police Force formally came into being last Sunday and officers were promptly despatched to take up the battle against bad...
made popular Dec 28 2009
President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that the world’s tallest waterfall has been called Angel Falls too long and should revert to its original indigenous name...
made popular Dec 23 2009
President Hugo Chavez launched a federal police force on Sunday that he hopes will change the overwhelmingly negative image most Venezuelans have of their public...
made popular Dec 21 2009
Hugo Chavez accused the Netherlands on Thursday of allowing the United States to use Dutch islands off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast to prepare a possible military...
made popular Dec 18 2009
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By 35 votes to 27, the Brazilian Senate approved today, December 15, the entry of Venezuela to Mercosur. The issue caused a dispute between the opposition and the...
made popular Dec 16 2009
President Hugo Chavez said Monday that Venezuela has received thousands of Russian-made missiles and rocket launchers as part of his government’s military...
made popular Dec 8 2009
US President Barack Obama may be well-intentioned but he’s still stuck in the past when it comes to supporting Honduras’ recent, post-coup election,...
made popular Dec 8 2009
For the slum-dwellers of El Junquito, the fabulous views of Caracas have never been of much interest. It was the piped water and electricity supplied to their makeshift...
made popular Dec 1 2009
The leftist Venezuelan leader praised Carlos — whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sánchez — as “one of the great fighters of the Palestinian Liberation...
made popular Nov 23 2009
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday declared that his country will not retaliate with war threats against Venezuela, his only aim being to defeat terrorism in...
made popular Nov 21 2009
representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)....
made popular Nov 21 2009
Venezuela has blown up two pedestrian bridges on its border with Colombia in the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the Andean neighbours.
Soldiers...
made popular Nov 20 2009
Venezuela - Call it the Bolivarian battle of the bulge.
President Hugo Chavez said in a televised speech Friday that “there are lots of fat people” in...
made popular Nov 17 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
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
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
He’s crossed swords, over the years, with all the usual right-wing suspects, from car-makers to gun owners to Wall Street executives, health companies, and George...
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
Venezuela’s autocrat Hugo Chavez has gone after the opposition, labor unions, media, term limits, courts, foreign businesses, domestic businesses and anything...
made popular Oct 2 2009
Porlamar, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi signed a declaration on Monday night decrying what they call attempts by...
made popular Sep 29 2009
Talk like a communist, walk like a democrat. That has been the paradoxical strategy pursued by Latin America’s new radical left — at least until now. Venezuelan...
made popular Sep 22 2009
I have little or no respect for the United Nations - primarily because they insist on hosting some of the worst leaders on the face of the earth today whenever they...
made popular Sep 2 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
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he would be willing to accept prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which U.S. President Barack Obama has said he...
made popular Apr 6 2009
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Henrique Capriles, governor of Venezuela’s Miranda state, speaks during an interview in Los Teques, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Capriles and other elected officials would see their authority dramatically erode when subordinated to a regional...
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