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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuela said on Tuesday it will pay US-based CMS Energy Corp. $106 million in its takeover of local electricity company Seneca as part of a nationalisation drive by leftist President Hugo Chavez. read more.. |
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KINGSTOWN, St Vincent:  Addressing members of his Unity Labour Party, at a political rally last week, St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves urged his supporters to come out and give the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, "a warm Vincentian welcome." read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuela unveiled on Sunday measures aimed at curbing inflation, which surged to 17 percent last year amid an oil-driven economic boom and heavy government spending. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday she believed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was destroying his country economically and politically. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): "Fish lay eggs, don't they?" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez asked Mary Quintero, a student at an agricultural collective who had just reached the half-way point of her course on fish-processing. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Thousands of Venezuelans wearing red and waving giant inflatable dolls of President Hugo Chavez poured into the streets of Caracas on Sunday to commemorate a 1992 coup that forged Chavez's reputation. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): High-ranking US officials and lawmakers are pressuring the State Department to take a more punishing tone with Venezuela, at the risk of tossing "red meat" to President Hugo Chavez, who now rules by decree, experts told AFP. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a fierce US critic who has been granted sweeping powers, has confirmed plans to buy missiles from Russia as part of a long-standing weapons upgrade. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Leftist firebrand President Hugo Chavez branded his US counterpart George W. Bush a "war criminal" Thursday as he assumed sweeping new powers for 18 months. read more.. |
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP):  Venezuelan lawmakers granted President Hugo Chavez the power to rule by decree for the next 18 months. Some 500 Chavez supporters dressed in his signature red gathered in front of a statue of independence hero Simon Bolivar to watch the ceremony. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuela's Congress delayed by a day on Tuesday its vote to give President Hugo Chavez decree powers enabling him to nationalise oil and utility assets and press his drive to turn Venezuela into a socialist state. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA (AFP):  Leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is threatening democracies in Latin America with his behaviour, US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said Tuesday. A former ambassador to Mexico and Honduras, Negroponte has often voiced his dislike of Chavez, read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): The US envoy to Venezuela on Friday played down a warning from President Hugo Chavez that he could be expelled and repeated his demand that US firms affected by nationalisation be compensated. read more.. |
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP):  A letter from Fidel Castro to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has revived the view that the ailing Cuban leader is hanging on and attentive to politics. Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage on Wednesday delivered the missive signed by Castro to his close ally Chavez, read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Cuba's Vice President Carlos Lage made a surprise visit to Caracas Wednesday to bolster his Communist regime's ties with its principal ally, the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Venezuela's energy ministry announced Wednesday the country would supply half of Guyana's oil needs after signing an energy accord with its neighbour. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Bloomberg): Venezuela will grant Cuba access to the South American nation's first-ever satellite, due to be launched in September, as ties between the states deepen and the health of Cuban President Fidel Castro grows more uncertain. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he would not change the official name of his country to "Socialist Republic of Venezuela," two weeks after he said he would drop the existing "Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela." read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez vowed Sunday that his government would always back US foes Syria and Iran in the face of threats from Washington. read more.. |
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| RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP): Venezuela's leftist firebrand President Hugo Chavez pressed leaders of South America's Mercosur trade bloc Friday to reject neoliberalism and US imperialism as they work to overcome differences on forging a new, integrated economic front. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Venezuela's legislature voted unanimously to grant President Hugo Chavez the power to rule by decree for 18 months, in the initial vote on a bill Thursday. The bill authorises Chavez to "rule by decree ... with the force of law." read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Leftist parties backing President Hugo Chavez announced on Tuesday talks to form a single political party, a United Socialist Party, to back Chavez's programme of "socialism for the 21st century." read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuela intensified its nationalization fight with foreign companies on Monday, vowing to impose a takeover of oil majors' operations and grab all of a US utility's stake in the country's largest private power company. read more.. |
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| TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left Iran on Friday for his second trip to Latin America in four months, starting with a visit to Venezuela and talks with its anti-US President Hugo Chavez. read more.. |
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CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters):  President Hugo Chavez's nationalisation push this week shows that despite his sometimes apocalyptic rhetoric, he calculates how far he can go in seeking to turn Venezuela into his vision of a socialist state. Chavez on Monday announced takeovers. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA (AFP): Standard and Poor's Thursday marked down its credit outlook for Venezuela a day after the Latin American country's president, Hugo Chavez, promised to expand his socialist agenda. read more.. |
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP):  President Hugo Chavez, a pro-Cuban critic of Washington, was sworn in Wednesday for a new six-year term, promising to expand "socialism Venezuelan-style" and rewrite the constitution to allow indefinite re-election. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters):  The Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza, the subject of name calling on Monday by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, said on Tuesday he would not get into a war of words with the leftist Venezuelan president. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): In the course of a week, Venezuela's firebrand President Hugo Chavez will be sworn in for a new term, followed by leftist allies Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and Rafael Correa in Ecuador whom he hopes will form an anti-US axis of the left. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday said four multibillion-dollar crude oil projects run by major oil companies should become state property, though officials said he was referring to previous plans for the state to take a majority stake. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Venezuela on Saturday urged the Organization of American States' chief to take back his call for Caracas to reconsider its decision not to renew the license of private broadcaster RCTV. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuela's refusal to renew the license of an opposition-linked television station threatens free expression, the Organization of American States said on Friday. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday named his older brother as education minister, reaffirming his family's role in public life and continuing a cabinet reshuffle that strengthens his grip on government. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez has appointed a new vice-president, finance minister and justice minister, bringing fresh allies into the Cabinet to strengthen his grip on government. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent gifts and wishes for a full recovery to ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, his friend and close political ally, on the New Year's Day anniversary of Cuba's revolution, official media reported Tuesday. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday the license of opposition television channel RCTV would not be renewed, giving ammunition to critics who say he is muzzling opponents to build a one-party state. read more.. |
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| MOSCOW, Russia (AFP): Russia has delivered five military helicopters to Venezuela, the manufacturer Rostvertol said on Thursday, the Ria-Novosti agency reported. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) : President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday demanded US Ambassador William Brownsfield withdraw his "lie" about increased drug trade in Venezuela if US-Venezuelan relations are to prosper. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): President Hugo Chavez's dominant political party said on Monday it was dissolving, laying the keystone for a single ruling party that critics fear is Chavez's attempt to turn Venezuela into Cuba. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday that he spoke on Thursday with ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who temporarily stepped aside in July following intestinal surgery. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Washington and Caracas are again on talking terms, the US ambassador here said after meeting the Venezuelan foreign minister, a major step aimed at ending years of frosty relations. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA (AFP):  A senior US diplomat said Wednesday this month's elections in Venezuela were promising as the presidential vote produced a clear winner and an opposition leader who was committed to democracy. "There was a clear winner that the opposition accepted." read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Sleek Maseratis grace car showrooms, maids take pampered poodles for walks past high-walled mansions and women decked out in Prada nibble on delicate pastries at street-side cafes. read more.. |
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Tuesday congratulated his ally Hugo Chavez on being re-elected president of Venezuela, but official silence about Castro's absence at celebrations in his honour cast fresh doubts on his health. Castro has not appeared in public since late July. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Bloomberg): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may have to devalue the currency by 2008 should he fail to curb a surge in government spending, Citigroup Inc. has said. read more.. |
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| BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will make little progress in exporting his self-styled socialist revolution in South America but his nationalist foreign policy could hamper regional integration efforts, analysts said on Monday. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): After five years of striking, plotting coups and crying fraud against leftist President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's opposition leaders on Sunday may have scored their first victory - by accepting defeat. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dedicated his landslide re-election on Sunday to Cuban President Fidel Castro but he is also keen to convince his supporters that he is not a leader in Castro's communist mold. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): The White House on Monday commended the Venezuelan public for participating in democracy, but did not mention the re-election of President Hugo Chavez who has described President George W. Bush as the devil. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Bloomberg): Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has won re-election, giving him six more years to use the country's oil wealth to help the poor and stir up anti-US sentiment in Latin America. Chavez took 61 percent of the vote while opponent Manuel Rosales took 38 percent. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Three days before a presidential election, Venezuela's firebrand President Hugo Chavez on Thursday urged the opposition to recognize his triumph once results are in and reported alleged plots to destabilise the country. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Bloomberg): Petroleos de Venezuela SA, South America's largest oil company, said it has signed a lease for a storage facility in the Caribbean island nation of Antigua and Barbuda as part of its PetroCaribe initiative. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): President Hugo Chavez's grip on vital Venezuelan institutions stacks the odds against his rival dislodging the anti-US incumbent in Sunday's election. read more.. |
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BASSETERRE, St Kitts:  St Kitts and Nevis Minister of Public Works and Public Utilities, Dr Earl Asim Martin, says the twin-island Federation will begin benefiting from the PetroCaribe agreement with Venezuela, when the first shipment of asphalt arrives in December. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Bloomberg): Petroleos de Venezuela SA, South America's largest oil company, will sell petroleum products, including gasoline and diesel, to Belize as part of Venezuela's PetroCaribe initiative. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Popular president and anti-US icon Hugo Chavez held a wide lead Sunday over his main rival as political parties mustered their final rallies before campaigning cuts off ahead of Venezuela's December 3 election. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP): Cuban President Fidel Castro is not on his death bed, but is ready to launch a "second mandate," Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday, brandishing a letter from his ailing friend. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): The Organization of American States will observe Venezuela's December 3 presidential election, an OAS official said on Thursday, ensuring the presence of top Western diplomatic bodies in what may be a contentious vote. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): President Hugo Chavez's challenger in Venezuela's December 3 election accused the incumbent on Tuesday of seeking to scare his opponents into staying away from the polls. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Bloomberg): Petroleos de Venezuela SA, South America's largest oil company, will sell petroleum products to the Caribbean island nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines as part of Venezuela's PetroCaribe initiative. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Bloomberg): Petroleos de Venezuela SA, South America's largest oil company, has offered to buy a 49 percent stake in Curacao's Isla refinery for $1.5 billion, Curacao-based Amigoe newspaper has reported. read more.. |
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RIO CARIBE, Venezuela (Reuters):  Manuel Rosales reckons he can only defeat Venezuela's anti-US President Hugo Chavez on December 3 if the electorate dares to defy a culture of political intimidation. The odds do not look promising. Rosales has trailed Chavez by 18 to 35 points in most opinion polls. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA (AFP):  Venezuela's firebrand leader, Hugo Chavez, is "losing influence" across Latin America despite the recent election of ally Daniel Ortega as president of Nicaragua, the US State Department's number two diplomat, Nicholas Burns, said Wednesday. read more.. |
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| CARACAS, Venezuela (Bloomberg): The European Union has agreed to send observers to monitor Venezuela's December 3 presidential election after the South American country gave in to EU demands that the head of its delegation be allowed to speak to the press and release his report to the public. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (UPI): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has once again threatened the United States with cutting off oil supplies if provoked by the Bush administration. read more.. |
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| CUMANA, Venezuela (Reuters): When Venezuela's Taoist Defense Minister, Raul Baduel, met his US counterpart last month, he produced a characteristically meditative solution to ill-feeling between Washington and Caracas. read more.. |
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LONDON, England (Bloomberg):  London Mayor Ken Livingstone has cancelled a trip this week to Caracas to sign an oil-supply agreement with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, citing the demands of Chavez's re-election campaign. The trip followed a pledge by Chavez to supply discounted Venezuelan oil. | |
