25 September, 2008

Venezuela nabs suspected coup plotters
Prosecutors are investigating a coup plot allegedly planned by active and retired military officers and supported by the opposition media and the US government.
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Chavez to Land in Moscow as Russian Warships Sail to Venezuela
Bloomberg – USA
25 (Bloomberg) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrives in Russia today for a two-day visit as the countries develop closer military ties amid worsening …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206010
86&sid=apuQ9RVynclE&refer=latin_america

Navy Ships Leave for Venezuela
The Moscow Times – Russia
23 September 2008A Navy squadron set off for Venezuela on Monday, an official said, in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere …
www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1010/42/371133.htm

New Coup D’Etat Rumblings in Venezuela
By Steve Lendman(Steve Lendman)
US intervention is innovative and determined to regain control of Venezuela and its vast hydrocarbon resources, the largest by far in the hemisphere after Canada. Perhaps the world with the US Department of Energy’s estimate of 1.36 …
sjlendman.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-
coup-detat-rumblings-in-venezuela.html

Chavez says has enough oil for all customers
By noreply@blogger.com (ooooooooo)
Venezuela’s plans to triple oil shipments to China over the next several years will not mean a cut in supplies to the United States and other countries, President Hugo Chavez said Thursday. Speaking at the end of a three-day visit to …
vheadlinevenezuelanews.blogspot.com/2008/09/
chavez-says-has-enough-oil-for-all.html

VENEZUELA – Chavez the enigma, a great or flawed leader?
By leejaywalker(leejaywalker)
Venezuela was well known for her oil industry but her political leaders were not very famous and Venezuela was certainly in the shadow and pocket of America. Of course her economy will remain in the shadow of America, however, …
journals.aol.com/leejaywalker/uk/entries/2008/09/25/venez
uela---chavez-the-enigma-a-great-or-flawed-leader/3103

Venezuela, China to build refineries
Calgary Herald – AB, Canada
… Junin 8 in the Orinoco Belt, South America’s biggest oil area, Chavez said Wednesday in Beijing in a phone interview with Venezuelan state television. …
www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/calgarybusiness/
story.html?id=4d0baecf-f6b0-4404-8ec2-ea519b4f9e8e

Russian naval unit on its way to Venezuela
Norway Post – Bærum,Norway
The two Russian naval vessels “Admiral Chabanenko” and “Peter the Great” have this week sailed off the coast of Norway, on their way to Venezuela. …
www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=195926

US prosecutors say Argentine, Venezuelan had cash
International Herald Tribune – France
AP MIAMI: An Argentine official and the security chief of Venezuela’s oil minister were in charge of loading two suitcases aboard a flight carrying cash …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/25/america/NA-US-Cash-Suitcase.php

China, Venezuela strengthen ties
CCTV – Beijing,China
Chinese President Hu Jintao has met for talks with Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chavez. Chavez is on a three-day state visit. Both have agreed to push bilateral …
www.cctv.com/english/20080925/100484.shtml

Venezuela signs Chinese oil deal
BBC News – UK
By Warren Bull President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has signed a series of energy co-operation deals with China. He said oil exports from Venezuela to China …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7634871.stm

Joint fund, energy deals inked with Venezuela
China
China and Venezuela Wednesday signed a dozen agreements, including one on doubling a joint investment fund to $12 billion and another on extending energy …
news.rednet.cn/c/2008/09/25/1599907.htm

2 arrested in alleged plot vs Venezuela’s Chavez
CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan authorities have arrested two people suspected of plotting to kill Hugo Chavez by blowing up the president’s plane with an anti-tank weapon, the country’s top security official said Wednesday.
www.gmanews.tv/story/122794/2-arreste
d-in-alleged-plot-vs-Venezuelas-Chavez

Outside View: Chavez on oil tour
Moscow (UPI) Sep 24, 2008 – When asked why he did not go to the current U.N. General Assembly session this week in New York, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told journalists at Beijing airport Tuesday it was far more important to be in the Chinese capital. “The United States is on the decline, while China and Russia continue to develop,” said the Venezuelan leader, who will pay a brief visit to Moscow Sept. 26
www.energy-daily.com/reports/Outside
_View_Chavez_on_oil_tour_999.html

Late rebel leader to get monument in Venezuela
The Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A monument to the late Colombian rebel leader Manuel Marulanda, who died in March at age 78, is going up in a poor Caracas …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gnQ-5aU
2oAqovx-as842WxItT9ywD93DEPRO0

Venezuela arrests 2 in alleged assassination plot
Venezuela arrests 2 in alleged assassination plot CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER,
Associated Press Writer September 24, 2008 2:35 PM CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)– Venezuelan authorities have arrested two people suspected of plotting to kill Hugo …
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duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3509265

Oil and energy minister: “Venezuela will not call an extraordinary …
By noreply@blogger.com (ooooooooo)
The Venezuelan Minister of Energy and Petroleum and president of the state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa), Rafael Ramírez, said on Wednesday in Beijing that Venezuela will not call, for the time being, an extraordinary …
vheadlinevenezuelanews.blogspot.com/2008/
09/oil-and-energy-minister-venezuela-will.html

United Socialist Party of Venezuela Launches Electoral Campaign
Venezuelanalysis.com – Caracas,Venezuela
He argued that the opposition only seeks to win in order to topple Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, and not to govern. He referred to the regional …
www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3826

Venezuela nabs suspected coup plotters
PRESS TV – Tehran,Iran
El Aissami did not identify the suspects, but did say that they were Venezuelan nationals. He said the rocket launcher was a Carl-Gustaf model,…
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=70479&sectionid=351020704

24 September, 2008

Venezuela Enters Oscars Race with “The Color of Fame”
By VenWorld
Breaking news, movie fans: Venezuela has just selected its submission for the category of Best Foreign Language Film in the upcoming Oscars. Oh the agony of waiting until February 22nd, 2009 at 5pm to find out who wins! …
venworld.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/venezuela
-enters-oscars-race-with-the-color-of-fame/

US-Venezuela Relations Up for the Day
By Scott Scheule
The US’s chief antagonist in the region, self-declared revolutionary socialist President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, said his oil-based economy is insulated from the US crisis by its growing detachment from ``this perverse financial …
distributedrepublic.net/archives/2008/
09/24/usvenezuela-relations-up-day

Venezuela Expels Human Rights Watch Director for “Meddling Illegally”
For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=view
Article&code=SUG20080924&articleId=10332

Venezuela: Iran to finance 25 factories:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced that 25 Iranian-built factories will open in the country in the near future.
www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Business/?id=1.0.2509122345

The Truth Suffers in Human Rights Watch Report on Venezuela
By www.thescarletpimpernel.info(www.thescarletpimpernel.info) On September 18, 2008 Human Rights Watch released a report entitled“Venezuela: Rights Suffer Under Chávez.” The report contains biases and inaccuracies, and wrongly purports that human rights guarantees are lacking or not properly …
www.thescarletpimpernel.info/2008/09/
truth-suffers-in-human-rights-watch.html

Venezuela Considers $2 Bln Foreign Bond Buyback, Nacional Says
Bloomberg – USA
24 (Bloomberg) — Venezuela is considering buying back $2 billion of government bonds denominated in foreign currencies, newspaper El Nacional reported, …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=
20601086&sid=aQ.9z1U_iaPc&refer=news

Social Summit Opens in Venezuela
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
The event will be run until September 27, sponsored by the Latin American Parliament, the Social Cabinet, the Venezuelan Presidency and the Foreign Affairs …
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BB
D1363A6-40F6-4D47-8D8C-083EDAFB9EC4%7D

Chavez set to diversify Venezuelan oil export routes
RIA Novosti – Moscow,Russia
(RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) – While a Russian naval squadron is still sailing to Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez has embarked on a …
en.rian.ru/analysis/20080924/117073146.html

Belize and US remain cordial despite Venezuela relationship
Caribbean Net News – Georgetown,Cayman Islands
By Oscar Ramjeet BELMOPAN, Belize: A top US State Department official recently concluded a three-day visit to Belize and said that despite the relationship …
www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-10917—27-27—.html

Smuggled case cash ‘totalled $5m’
BBC News – UK
An alleged plot to smuggle election funds from Venezuela to Argentina may have involved as much as $5m, a court in the US city of Miami has heard.…
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7632894.stm

Witness: Another $4.2M was on plane to Argentina
The Associated Press
Three others have pleaded guilty and are cooperating with prosecutors as witnesses; one remains at large and is thought to be in Venezuela. …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9Awbd
my2MbrUsgADdyW9zP_g6oQD93CQM1G0

Witness: Suitcase with $4.2M slips into Argentina
International Herald Tribune – France
AP MIAMI: A businessman who prosecutors say carried a cash-filled suitcase into Argentina for Venezuela’s government testified on Tuesday that a second …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/24
/america/NA-US-Cash-Suitcase.php

Chavez Will Meet Medvedev in Orenburg
By Nikolaus von Twickel / STAFFF WRITER
Just days after Moscow dispatched a Navy squadron to Venezuela, the Latin American countrys president will touch down in Orenburg for a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday.
www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2008/09/24/003.html

Venezuela airline interested in Alitalia
Shanghai News – shanghai,China
Venezuelan airline Aserca is believed to be making an offer for distressed
Italian national flag carrier Alitalia. Ascera has said it will make
details of …
www.theshanghainews.net/story/410240

Russian Navy Squadron heads to Venezuela: Deployment to Western Hemisphere unprecedented since Cold War
Dandelion Salad Global Research, September 22, 2008
The Moscow Times – 2008-09-23 A Navy squadron set off for Venezuela on Monday, an official said, in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere unprecedented since the Cold War. Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo said the nuclear-powered Peter the Great cruiser accompanied by three other ships sailed from the […]
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Like Venezuela, so Ecuador?
Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA
Venezuelan soldier-turned-President Hugo Chavez harnessed soaring oil revenues and simmering class resentments to make himself the hub of anti-American …
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/
sep/24/like-venezuela-so-ecuador/

Preparing for US Invasion of Venezuela
By www.thescarletpimpernel.info(www.thescarletpimpernel.info)
Back in Venezuela, journalist Mario Silva broadcasted a recording a week ago on his programme The Razorblade of active and retired military personnel plotting the assassination of Chavez by blowing up either his plane or presidential …
www.thescarletpimpernel.info/2008/09/
preparing-for-us-invasion-of-venezuela.html