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The liberal love affair with Venezuelan brute Hugo Chavez should finally come to an end. A populist demagogue who has centralized power in his hands, sidelined his opposition and accused them of being “traitors”, wrecked the Venezuelan economy (once...
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People have always speculated about whether there was ever life on the planet Mars, and that fascination has extended to the film industry which has produced a plethora...
made popular Mar 24 2011
There is not very little doubt that Hugo Chavez is a near-dictatorial tyrant in Venezuela. The former army general first attempt at politics was a military coup,...
made popular Feb 23 2011
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez has always been an odious and demagogic leader with an authoritarian bent. For awhile it was enough to dismiss him as a vulgar leftist...
made popular Dec 30 2010
Hugo Chavez has always held authoritarian instincts: Back in the 1990s when he was a general he attempted a failed coup against the democratic government in Caracas....
made popular Dec 27 2010
The parliament in Venezuela has approved a law which will tighten the rules regulating internet content.
Under the bill, online messages inciting hatred, or political...
made popular Dec 21 2010
The huge, inflated ego of Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, must be mightily bruised in these latest round of parliamentary elections, considering his...
made popular Sep 28 2010
Voting has ended in Venezuela for legislative elections in which the ruling Socialist Party is seeking to fend off a challenge from opposition candidates.
Venezuelan...
made popular Sep 27 2010
Campaigning to fill the 165 seats of Venezuela’s National Parliament came to an end Thursday with President Hugo Chávez and his foes both vowing to emerge...
made popular Sep 24 2010
The government said Monday it is taking steps designed to prevent blackouts that have been hitting several regions across Venezuela, so there won’t be...
made popular Sep 21 2010
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez exhorted supporters to treat next Sunday’s parliamentary vote as a “battle” for the two-thirds majority needed so his...
made popular Sep 20 2010
President Hugo Chavez on Friday branded as “imperial vulgarity” a U.S. government report that faults Venezuela for not fulfilling its commitments against drug...
made popular Sep 18 2010
A plane carrying 51 people crashed Monday in eastern Venezuela, and officials said 33 survived while at least 14 were killed. The French-built ATR 42 from the state...
made popular Sep 14 2010
An engineer working for state-owned utility Corpoelec was arrested for trying to “instigate” the assassination of President Hugo Chavez by means of messages and...
made popular Sep 10 2010
Fidel Castro, visionary and pioneer.
Fidel Castro is back in the game. After suffering a medical illness, the revolutionary initially let his brother Raul to take...
made popular Sep 10 2010
Two police officers and a civilian were arrested as suspects in the murder of an Italian who turned up dead with two bullet wounds while his sailboat was anchored at...
made popular Sep 9 2010
More than 4,000 inmates at three Venezuelan jails began a hunger strike in protest against alleged brutality by guards, judicial delays and chronic overcrowding, the...
made popular Sep 6 2010
A farmer who held repeated hunger strikes in a land dispute with Venezuela’s government has died in a military hospital where he had been taken against his...
made popular Sep 1 2010
President Hugo Chavez’s allies launched their campaigns Wednesday for crucial congressional elections that come just as recession, crime and inflation have pushed...
made popular Aug 27 2010
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Prosecutors in Venezuela say a soldier opened fire at an army base in the capital, Caracas, killing two officers and wounding six other soldiers.
The soldier...
made popular Aug 24 2010
Venezuelan publishers and journalists on Wednesday criticized the court ruling temporarily prohibiting two Caracas dailies from publishing photos of deaths and...
made popular Aug 20 2010
Venezuela plans to continue shipping fuel to Iran despite the threat of U.S. sanctions.
David Velasquez is Venezuela’s ambassador to Tehran. He says President...
made popular Aug 19 2010
Venezuela’s Communist Party urged the government on Monday to seek the repatriation of convicted terrorist “Carlos the Jackal,” who is serving a life...
made popular Aug 17 2010
Venezuela has moved the women’s baseball world championship tournament to militarised stadiums outside Caracas after a Hong Kong player was shot during a game,...
made popular Aug 17 2010
Colombia’s new president, Juan Manuel Santos, and his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez, moved on Tuesday to repair diplomatic relations after ties had sharply...
made popular Aug 11 2010
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday went through with his threat to reject the diplomat nominated by President Barack Obama to be the U.S. ambassador to...
made popular Aug 9 2010
After the posturing and hysterics, an emergency meeting and competing press briefings, South American leaders were unable to resolve a crisis that began when the...
made popular Aug 2 2010
President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to cut off oil sales to the United States if Venezuela is attacked by its U.S.-allied neighbor Colombia in a dispute over...
made popular Jul 27 2010
Venezuela and Colombia are the original odd-couple of Hemispheric diplomacy. With the former run by a rambunctious socialist autocrat and the latter by a U.S.-aligned...
made popular Jul 27 2010
President Hugo Chavez announced on Thursday that Venezuela was breaking diplomatic relations with Colombia over Bogota’s claims that his government is sheltering...
made popular Jul 23 2010
Most historians have accepted that Simón Bolívar, the 19th-century hero of Venezuelan independence, died from tuberculosis on 17 December 1830, aged 47, and that his...
made popular Jul 22 2010
It’s President Hugo Chavez’s biggest economic battle cry, and it’s getting louder as Venezuela suffers a recession: “We’re going to bury...
made popular Jul 20 2010
The group of Colombian reporters detained earlier this weekend by Venezuelan authorities arrived Sunday in Colombia after being deported by the neighboring country,...
made popular Jul 19 2010
Bill Clinton has promised to get tough with countries which pledged billions of dollars in aid to earthquake-ravaged Haiti but have yet to deliver the money they...
made popular Jul 16 2010
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
Meet Republican Crackpot: Sue Myrick of North Caroline.
This zealot sees a Muslim conspiracy in everything and is akin to anti-Semities in that regard. Meaning just as...
made popular Jul 16 2010
Francisco Chavez Abarca was arrested by Venezuelan authorities last Thursday when he arrived at Caracas’ international airport.
Venezuelan officials said Chavez...
made popular Jul 7 2010
A BBC film crew has filmed the intimate life of one of the world’s largest and most powerful eagles, the harpy eagle of Central and South America.
made popular Jul 6 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
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A demonstrator run away from tear gas canisters fired by riot police officers during a labor day demonstration called by the opposition in Caracas, Friday, May 1, 2009. Hundreds of Venezuelan police and National Guard troops broke up an opposition march.
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