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Despite differences on a number of issues, OPEC members are united over increasing oil prices, which could touch $200 per barrel. Inaugurating the OPEC summit in Riyadh, the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave a chilling warning to the global...
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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
As Iran stumbles deeper into political crisis, with scores of protestors murdered and likely more deaths coming after Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami declared them...
made popular Jul 1 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
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...
made popular Jun 22 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
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
In a post-bubble world that vilifies the private sector and elevates government as humanity’s best hope, two events in Latin America last week deserve...
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
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
It seemed so obvious for a few years, back when the Berlin Wall had just fallen, that democratic capitalism would be the only way left for a developing country to...
made popular May 30 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...
made popular May 28 2009
President Barack Obama greeting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Will President Obama’s handshake with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez undermine the former...
made popular Apr 20 2009
AP, Caracas
Opponents of Hugo Chavez on Sunday urged President Barack Obama not to warm up to their president without also addressing their concerns about democracy and human...
made popular Apr 20 2009
AP, Port-of-spain
The final declaration of the Summit of Americas, which Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and his leftist bloc refused to sign, turned out to have just one signatory.
made popular Apr 19 2009
AP, Caracas
Opponents of Hugo Chavez urged President Barack Obama on Sunday not to warm up to the Venezuelan president without raising concerns about democracy and dissidents in...
made popular Apr 19 2009
AP, Port-of-spain
Hugo Chavez said Saturday that he is restoring Venezuela’s ambassador in Washington, voicing hopes for a “new era” in U.S. relations after barely...
made popular Apr 19 2009
AP, Port-of-spain
Presidents Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez have met for the first time, shaking hands as the Summit of the Americas gets under way in Trinidad and Tobago.
made popular Apr 18 2009
Every week the news out of Venezuela gets worse. Chavez has never respected democratic institutions, that is why is first gambit into politics was through a failed...
made popular Apr 13 2009
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