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Pro-government deputy asks for investigation into Caracas Metro Mayor
By: El Universal
Juan Carlos Dugarte, a deputy for ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), asked the Comptroller General Office to launch an investigation into the administration of Caracas Metropolitan Mayor Antonio Ledezma. He also requested the Comptrol
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Peru’s Foreign Ministry to meet with opposition leader Manuel Rosales
By: El Universal
Officials from the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs are expected to receive on Monday the opposition leader Manuel Rosales, who has requested political asylum in the South American country, Javier Valle Riestra, a prominent legislator and Rosales
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Venezuela: Proposed international cooperation law could hinder human rights
By: Reporter Freelance
A draft law on international cooperation (Ley de Cooperacion Internacional), currently being discussed in Venezuela’s National Assembly, could seriously hamper the work of human rights organizations in Venezuela, said Amnesty International today.
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Telesur network’s Andres Izarra complains at the OAS of “media terrorism”
By: El Universal
Andres Izarra, the head of Latin American TV news network Telesur, has attended a special session of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, on ‘the Right to Freedom of Thought & Expression.’ He complained about the behavior of the
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Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) paid some contractors only 5% of debt
By: El Universal
Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the state-owned oil company, is still affected by financial problems related to the collapse of oil prices. Up to April, PDVSA had only paid 5% of its outstanding debt to some oil service companies and suppliers.
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Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim on weekend work visit to Caracas
By: El Universal
Celso Amorim, the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, is scheduled to arrive in Caracas on Saturday to discuss topics of bilateral interest with his Venezuela counterpart Nicolas Maduro and meet with President Hugo Chavez. Amorim will return to
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Chavez: Venezuela’s economy still growing despite the global financial crisis
By: Reuters
Venezuela’s economy is still growing despite the global financial crisis, President Hugo Chavez said on Friday, as the OPEC nation struggles with drastically lower revenues from oil exports. “We are still growing in economic terms,” Chavez said in a
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Super Depression: Ernst Bloch and international workers class struggle
By: Dr. Franz J.T. Lee
For a change, let us talk about more pleasant things, leave aside the current capitalist productive slime, the ravenous greed and quagmires of Wall Street, arms of mass destruction, genocidal world wars, lies, hoaxes, torture, terror, financial and
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Five reasons why readers should disregard the Global Property Guide…
By: Arthur Shaw
Some two-bit pro-imperialist outfit called the Global Property Guide has just put out a piece of bourgeois propaganda which it headlined: “Five Reasons Investors Should Avoid Venezuela.” In our reply, we shall look at merits (or lack thereof) of the
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Patrick J. O’Donoghue’s news and views from Venezuela — April 24, 2009
By: Patrick J. O’Donoghue
National Assembly (AN) president, Celia Flores calls the Metropolitan Mayoralty an “absurdity,” adding that sooner or later it must be eliminated. Flores made the statement during the first reading of a special law on the transfer of assets and resou
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Un Nuevo Tiempo’s Delsa Solorzano pips Hillary Clinton in beauty stakes
By: VHeadline Venezuela News
The national director of Venezuela’s Un Nuevo Tiempo-UNT (A New Time) opposition political party, Delsa Solorzano (pictured right), is one of the top 20 most beautiful politicians in the world according to a survey published by the Spanish website 20
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Trinidad & Tobago PM Manning says snubbed by President Hugo Chavez
By: Stabroek News
The Fifth Summit of the Americas last weekend was a big deal for Trinidad & Tobago. To be precise, it was a big deal for Prime Minister Patrick Manning, who hailed the “spirit of cooperation” which seems to have been the hallmark of the hemispheric
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First Vice Premier of Belarus says brick factory may be built in Venezuela
By: BelTA
A Belarusian brick factory may be built in Venezuela as an equivalent of the Loyev factory of building materials, First Vice Premier of Belarus, Vladimir Semashko told President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko during a visit to the Loyev company on
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Venezuelan authorities say they arrested a FARC commander in Zulia State
By: Colombia Reports
Venezuelan authorities say they arrested a commander of Colombia’s largest insurgency group FARC. Yainer Esneider Acosta Pena, the alleged commander of the guerrilla’s 45th front, was arrested in the western Zulia state. According to Venezuelan media
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Venezuela promotes cross-cultural bilingual education and linguistic rights
By: Prensa Latina
A meeting on Cross-cultural Bilingual Education and Linguistic Rights was attended by Venezuelan teachers of the indigenous Karina, Yekuana, Pemon, Piapoco, Sanema, Jivi, Enapa, Wotuja, and Warao people. The meeting was held at the Cultural Diversity
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US Secretary of State Clinton endorses Obama gesture with Chavez
By: El Universal
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the President of the United States Barack Obama is exploring “the ways” to work together with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez, since the policy intended to isolate him “has not worked.”
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National Assembly approves Capital District Transfer Law at first reading
By: El Universal
With political parties Podemos and Frente Humanista abstaining from voting, the National Assembly (AN) passed in a first session a draft Special Law on Transfer of Assets & Resources provisionally managed by the Caracas Metropolitan District to the C
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Bishops say there is a threat on democratic coexistence in Venezuela
By: El Universal
The prelates pointed out that in the few last months “stances have been polarized even more, and the government takes decisions beyond or against the Constitution.” They admit the government intends to include sectors traditionally excluded in the
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There are sticks, big ones, to beat those who might be tempted by the angels
By: Chris Herz
Our new US president, Barack Obama is a very canny and astute politician. He understands quite well how power works in the USA; his brilliant and meteoric rise to the presidency reflects this. Simon Johnson formerly of the International Monetary Fund
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FOX’ Hannity insisting that Obama has weakened USA national security?
By: NewsHounds US
Remember how Sean Hannity used to constantly accuse Democrats of emboldening our enemies and undermining our troops with their rhetoric about the Bush administration? How, then, to explain — other than as either rampant, partisan hypocrisy or treason
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Venezuela needs partners for its 2007/13 petrochemicals revolution plan
By: YourIndustryNews
With crude oil prices at their current levels, Venezuela will need partners to carry out its petrochemicals revolution 2007-13 plan, which includes some 80 projects in total that would triple petrochemical production to 32Mt/y, Raul Arias, a consulta
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Venezuelan Milka Duno rejoins D&R ahead of Kansas IndyCar Series
By: Matt Beer
Milka Duno is to return to Dreyer & Reinbold Racing from this weekend’s Kansas round of the IndyCar Series. The Venezuelan replaces Darren Manning, who was signed at short notice for the St Petersburg and Long Beach street races, in the #23 car along
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Melanie Morgan: As one neighbor to another, Sean, shut up and act!
By: Melanie Morgan
Today, I want to apologize for my fellow Marin County resident, Sean Penn. He appears to be off his meds (or on too many) and went on a rant that is common among too many pompous millionaire actors who confuse their vast sums of money with their abil
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VenEconomy: Divide and rule has been one of Chavez’ most-used strategies
By: VenEconomy
Over this past decade, the government has brandished, falsely and without the slightest scruple, the vindication of workers’ rights as justification for the State to confiscate, expropriate, nationalize or statize land, industries, and properties.
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Ronald Blanco la Cruz appointed ambassador to Cuba; Laguna to Honduras
By: El Universal
Ex-Tachira state governor, Captain (ret.) Ronald Blanco la Cruz, was appointed as the new Venezuelan ambassador to Cuba, and he is just waiting for the placet to take office. For his part, retired vice-admiral Armando Laguna Laguna will be the chief
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Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) readjusts branding of domestic gas stations
By: El Universal
Although PDVSA took control of the wholesale operations and the transportation of fuel after a nationalization decree which entered into force on October 2008, the state-owned oil company has not completed the passage of a resolution on the use of
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