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/ 9 February 2009
Oil fluctuations and high inflation threaten revolution, writes Rory Carroll.
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/ 8 February 2009
Thousands marched in the Venezuelan capital on Saturday to oppose President Hugo Chávez’s plans to allow unlimited re-election for officials.
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/ 18 January 2009
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro is "alive and kicking", Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said on Saturday.
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/ 6 December 2008
Hugo Chávez this week launched a push for constitutional reform that would allow him to go on seeking indefinite re-election as Venezuela’s president.
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/ 25 November 2008
Venezuela’s socialist party will evaluate whether to present a plan next year to propose amending the law to approve indefinite presidential rule.
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/ 24 November 2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s left-wing party won most state races in elections on Sunday, but the opposition scored victories in major centres.
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/ 24 November 2008
Venezuelans voted into the night on Sunday in state elections that test President Hugo Chávez’s 10-year grip on power.
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/ 27 September 2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s visit to China and Russia this week put him on dangerous ground in his relations with the US, analysts say.
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/ 5 September 2008
They entered the room in single file, hips swaying, lips pouting, eyes shining, to be unveiled and paraded. Six gorgeous women.
Opec should consider cutting oil production at the next meeting if member nations determine that recent price declines constitute a downturn.
Venezuela’s President, Hugo Chávez, arrived in Moscow on Tuesday on his latest arms-buying spree.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said on Sunday oil prices could hit per barrel if US oil company Exxon Mobil again freezes Venezuelan assets.
The presidents of Venezuela and Colombia exploit the feelgood factor in the region to mend a relationship that had turned sour.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has given viewers of his weekly live TV show, Aló Presidente, a surprise
President Hugo Chávez is raising Venezuela’s minimum wage by 30% as inflation continues to soar in the oil-producing nation. The socialist leader has signed a decree that will fix the monthly minimum wage at , starting on May 1, International Workers’ Day. Chávez says the move will give Venezuela the highest minimum wage in Latin America.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez accused his Colombian counterpart of war crimes as Venezuela and Ecuador turned up the heat on Bogotá over its military strike on an insurgent camp inside Ecuador. ”A war crime occurred there,” Chávez charged late on Wednesday at a joint press conference with Ecuadorian counterpart Rafael Correa.
Venezuela deployed tanks and its air and sea forces toward the Colombian border in its first major military mobilisation in a crisis with Colombia, the country’s defence minister said on Wednesday. The move escalates tensions in a dispute over a Colombian weekend raid inside another of its neighbours, Ecuador.
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/ 27 February 2008
Two Venezuelan helicopters flew into Colombia on Wednesday to pick up four lawmakers held hostage for years in jungle camps by Marxist rebels, in a diplomatic victory for Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia last month released two politicians in a deal brokered by Chávez.
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/ 22 February 2008
A domestic passenger plane carrying 46 people was ”practically pulverised” when it crashed into Venezuela’s western Andes Mountains overnight and the chances of finding survivors was nil, officials said on Friday. ”The plane was practically pulverised and [crashed] head-on,” a fire-services officer said.
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/ 22 February 2008
A Venezuelan passenger plane with 46 people aboard went missing and likely crashed in a remote mountain region soon after taking off from an Andean city just before dusk on Thursday. Villagers reported hearing a huge noise they thought could be a crash after the twin-engine plane flew out of the high-altitude city of Merida headed for the capital Caracas.
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/ 13 February 2008
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez stopped oil exports to Exxon Mobil on Tuesday, escalating a multibillion-dollar fight with the United States company two days after threatening to cut off all supplies to America. The anti-US president’s retaliation for Exxon’s legal offensive pushed oil prices higher in late trading.
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/ 30 January 2008
Venezuelan police swooped down on an ambulance used by robbers escaping a bank siege on Tuesday, arresting all four men and freeing a group of captives to end a two-day hostage stand-off. More than 50 people were held captive before the assailants negotiated an escape plan earlier on Tuesday.
Venezuela President Hugo Chávez, in an interview with supermodel Naomi Campbell, predicted that the United States ”empire” is about to fall, called Jesus Christ history’s number one revolutionary and offered to pose topless. ”Why not? Touch my muscles!” the burly 53-year-old former paratrooper said.
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/ 30 December 2007
Venezuela President Hugo Chávez promised on Saturday to tackle poor garbage collection and high crime in a bid to win back support for his socialist ”revolution”, which was hurt in a poll defeat a few weeks ago. Chávez spent much of 2007 working on political ”reforms” that would have allowed him to run for re-election indefinitely.
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/ 22 December 2007
Venezuelan authorities are standing by to receive three hostages Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebels have said could be released as early as this weekend after spending years of captivity in the jungle. ”The mobilisation for the operation has begun,” one source close to the government said.
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/ 5 December 2007
President Hugo Chávez said on Wednesday his push to have Venezuela accept sweeping constitutional reforms has ”not finished” despite being rejected in a weekend referendum. ”The discussion on the transformation of the state is not finished,” he told state VTV television.
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/ 2 December 2007
Venezuelans vote in a tightly contested referendum on Sunday on whether to allow left-wing President Hugo Chávez to stay in power for as long as he keeps winning elections or hand him his first defeat at the polls. The anti-American firebrand, who has easily won one election after another against a fragmented opposition, is in the hardest campaign of his life.
Former world champion Mika Hakkinen says the competition provided by Lewis Hamilton has current world champion Fernando Alonso rattled. The pair are teammates at McLaren-Mercedes but Spaniard Alonso is said to be not speaking to Hamilton after a series of incidents between the pair in the Briton’s rookie season.
Brazil stunned bitter rivals and overwhelming favourites Argentina 3-0 to win their eighth Copa America title on Sunday. It was the second successive title for the Brazilians and was sweet justification for coach Dunga, who was without superstars Ronaldinho and Kaka, and who had been the target of vitriolic criticism.
Defending champions Brazil reached the Copa America final on Tuesday, beating a feisty Uruguay on penalties after twice surrendering the lead in a 2-2 draw. Maicon put Brazil ahead early on before a floodflight failure stopped the first half of the semifinal for 14 minutes.
Whatever glimmer came off the reputations of Brazil and Uruguay during the first round of the Copa America was certainly polished during the quarterfinals. The heavyweights redeemed themselves with one-sided victories over the weekend and face off against one another on Tuesday for a berth in the final, each emboldened by their high-scoring blowouts.
Police using water cannons on Sunday dispersed thousands of stone-throwing protesters outside Venezuela’s telecom authority, which ordered the country’s most popular television off the air at midnight. The closure of Venezuela’s oldest network is the latest bone of contention in President Hugo Chávez’s socialist revolution.