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Shantytowns: Decades of bad, indifferent and insensitive administrations
By: Antonio Padrino
It only takes a few glances at Caracas to realize the heritage left by 40 years of AD and COPEI governments. They were truly insensitive and immoral … they left lots of the mountain slopes populated informally by poor generated by a capitalist mode
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Black market Bs.F/US$ trading halted by US authorities on DEA probe
By: Reuters
Trade in Venezuela’s unofficial (i.e. black market) currency market was largely halted on Thursday after US authorities froze a key bank account used for foreign exchange transactions as part of an investigation, traders told Reuters.
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Charges against 8 police and three others for attack on Caracas synagogue
By: Wire Services
Venezuelan prosecutors have filed charges against eight police officers and three others in the January attack on Caracas’ largest synagogue. Prosecutors say they have asked a court to approve charges including robbery and acts of contempt against a
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Venezuela delays bidding for Orinoco heavy crude fields by three weeks
By: Reuters
Venezuela has delayed by three weeks a bidding round for fields in the vast Orinoco heavy crude belt in order to answer company questions about the tender, the nation’s energy minister said on Thursday.
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Venezuela’s financial system liquidity reaches Bs.F 192 billion…
By: ABN
The liquidity of the Venezuelan financial system has reaches Bs.F 192 billion … so an increase in the public debt as result of the reformulation of the national budget will not affect Venezuela’s banking, says former Finance Minister Nelson Merente
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Hard blows and bites coming from pro-imperialist garbage in leadership
By: Arthur Shaw
“The opposition-run Zulia State Legislature Council has announced that it has been discussing a call for a referendum on the decentralization reform law that has returned the administration of ports and airports and highways to the central government
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It’s not proper for President Chavez to earn Bs.F 5,000 ($2,325) a month!
By: Laht.com
The maximum pay that Venezuelan public officials can earn will drop to the equivalent of US$5,397 a month under a bill now moving through the National Assembly. A legislative commission will take over drafting the bill, which was approved on Tuesday
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Venezuela: No more new cars, flush salaries or fat bonuses for officials
By: International Herald Tribune
No more new cars, flush salaries or fat bonuses for government officials in Venezuela. President Hugo Chavez has signed a decree to end government spending on luxuries as Venezuela’s oil earnings shrink dramatically. “We must put and end to mega-sala
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Pittsburgh Pirates player’s Venezuelan wife accused of abducting baby
By: Bradenton Herald
The wife of a Pittsburgh Pirates player accused of abducting a baby from Plant City has been transferred from the Manatee County jail to the custody of authorities in Hillsborough County. Amalia Pereira Tabata, 43, was arrested here on a false impris
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Chavez nationalizes Aeropostal to combat international drug networks
By: Agence France Press
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced he would nationalize the country’s private airline Aeropostal, citing government allegations it is linked to international drug networks. Chavez, whose military on Saturday took control of all the country’s
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Helmerich & Payne halts operations over delayed PDVSA payments
By: International Herald Tribune
US oil driller Helmerich & Payne said it is continuing to halt operations in Venezuela due to delayed payments from Venezuela’s state oil company. Two of the company’s 11 rigs active during the first fiscal quarter have stopped work since January bec
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Socialist Workers’ Front says teachers’ strike was an absolute failure…
By: Prensa Latina
The Venezuelan Socialist Workers’ Front (FTS) has termed an absolute failure the attempted education strike in the country, where responsibility and conscience of teachers prevailed. In remarks to Venezolana de Television, FTS member William Lozada s
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CITGO’s Corpus Christi gets prestigious 2008 Oil Spill Prevention Award
By: Press Release
CITGO’s Corpus Christi Refinery has been awarded the Texas General Land Office’s prestigious 2008 Oil Spill Prevention & Response Act (OSPRA) Award. For the first time, the award has been bestowed on the same company for two consecutive years, as a
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Bank of the South will open for business in the second half of this year
By: VHeadline Venezuela News
Foreign Affairs (MRE) Minister Nicolas Maduro has told reporters that plans for the Bank of the South are already a reality after a meeting at which it was decided the bank will open for business in the second half of this year.
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