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Patrick J. O’Donoghue’s news and views from Venezuela — May 27, 2009
By: Patrick J. O’Donoghue
During a meeting with Brazilian President, Lula da Silva, President Chavez has assured him that Brazilian companies in Venezuela will not be subject to any nationalization. It has also been learned that Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and Brazil’s Pet
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Venezuela rejects Italian ENI’s proposal to create another world oil agency
By: El Universal
Minister of Energy & Petroleum Rafael Ramirez dismissed on Wednesday an initiative from Italian oil company ENI to organize an agency of oil producing and consuming countries in order to make oil prices steady. “I understand that they have proposed t
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Arch Enemy metal singer Angela Gossow evaluates her gig in Maracay
By: Angela Gossow
“Getting into Caracas was a smooth ride. We got picked up by the promoters contact at the airport and never had to pass immigration. Yeah, that’s how things are done there. ha-ha. With or without the pig flu! Haha. Looks brutal!
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Venezuelans demand reopening of RCTV and urge respect for media
By: Knight Center
Dozens of political and civil society organizations, as well as students and journalists, were planning marches through the streets of Caracas and other cities to urge the government of Hugo Chavez to resume the open broadcasts of Radio Caracas Telev
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Venezuelan government vetoes 3 NGOs at OAS General Assembly
By: El Universal
The Venezuelan government vetoed the participation of a number of non-governmental organizations at the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) that will take place in Honduras. Venezuelan authorities described the NGOs as “dest
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Argentina’s President asks Chavez to publicly deny Brazilian exemption
By: Buenos Aires Herald
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called the Venezuelan President after reading in foreign media that he allegedly told Brazilian President Lula Da Silva Venezuela would nationalize the country’s main companies, except the Brazilians
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Culture Minister Soto calls Mario Vargas Llosa insolent and disrespectful
By: El Universal
Venezuelan Minister of Culture, Hector Soto has described the Peruvian writher Mario Vargas Llosa as “insolent” and “disrespectful” after he again criticized the Venezuelan government, ahead of his visit to Caracas to attend a forum on economic freed
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Gold drops in Asia for 3rd day as US$ rebound keeps it from gaining further
By: Kishori Krishnan
Gold dropped in Asia on Wednesday, as a rally in the dollar continued for a third day, reducing the appeal of the precious metal as an alternative investment. “The dollar’s rebound has kept gold from gaining further,” Shuji Sugata, research manager a
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Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa warned against making political comments
By: El Universal
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was detained for more than one hour at the Maiquetia international airport by immigration officials upon his arrival in Venezuela to take part in a forum of intellectuals hosted by a private organization opposed to
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Venezuela ends second GRZ Las Brisas del Cuyuni gold concession…
By: Reuters
Venezuela has ended a second concession held by Gold Reserve (GRZ) at the Las Brisas del Cuyuni project in one of Latin America’s largest gold deposits, a government move to boost state control of key economic sectors. The government’s official publ
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Gold Reserve: “We would make an arbitration claim in excess of $5 billion!”
By: eTaiwanNews
US gold miner Gold Reserve Inc. said it might take President Hugo Chavez’ government to international arbitration if a friendly agreement cannot be reached over its Venezuelan gold concession … the future of Gold Reserve’s Brisas del Cuyuni concess
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The Lost World: Venezuela’s billion-year-old tepuys are an epic destination
By: Calgary MetroNews
Waterfalls are popular places. There’s something about them that makes people gush with torrents of praise and wonder. You have honeymooners’ Niagara, of course, and then Africa’s Victoria Falls, and the likes of Iguazu on the Brazil-Argentina border
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Venezuela Legislators focus on torture in the past as violence rages today
By: Laht.com
The National Assembly (AN) and Public Defender Gabriela Ramirez are working together on the text of a new law against the prevention of and compensation for torture — although it would seem those involved have their minds on burrowing into the past
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Argentinean Industrial union rejects Venezuela’s Mercosur membership
By: Merco Press Agency
Argentina’s powerful Industrial Union (UIA) urged Argentina’s government to revise the possibility of integrating Venezuela as a member of the Mercosur, “after the reiterating actions which have implied the nationalization of companies in Venezuela.”
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Chavez’ ‘Alo Presidente’ to stretch over four successive days later this week
By: Laht.com
Venezuela’s ever-talkative leader is to broadcast a special version of his regular Sunday program, ‘Alo Presidente,’ and this time it’ll stretch over no less than four successive days later this week.
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Chavez: Israeli uranium accusations meant to tarnish image of government…
By: Iranian Press/TV
Bolivia has strongly denied Israeli reports that the Latin American country has been supplying uranium to Iran for its nuclear program. Bolivian Presidential Minister Juan Ramon Quintana declared that the Israeli report is nonsense and labeled Israel
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Chavez administration has been peeling society like an onion, layer by layer
By: VenEconomy
In pursuit of social control, the Chavez administration has been peeling society like an onion, layer by layer, and sometimes several layers together. And if this totalitarian tornado continues in to be fanned by those in power, there will be nothing
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Participative democracy that Chavez offered in early days reduced to nothing
By: VenEconomy
As happens in the story of the boy who cried wolf, many Venezuelans still don’t believe that the wolf is already at their door. And what is worse, even less do they understand that this totalitarian wolf is razing to the ground the few vestiges of de
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President Chavez says oil prices could eventually climb to $90-$100 a barrel
By: Business Week
Venezuela’s President says he believes oil prices could climb eventually to $90 or $100 a barrel. Hugo Chavez says he also is “more or less” in agreement with Saudi Arabia’s estimate that in the more immediate future prices could hover between $75 an
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Brazil-Venezuela negotiations on joint construction of refinery remain stalled
By: El Universal
The negotiations between Brazil and Venezuela over the joint construction of a refinery remain stalled, despite the talks Presidents Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Hugo Chavez held on Tuesday in Salvador de Bahia about the topic.
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Chavez and Lula da Silva will attend El Salvador’s June 1 presidential transfer
By: Prensa Latina
Salvadorian Foreign Minister Marisol Argueta said that 15 presidents had confirmed they would attend the inauguration ceremony on June 1, when the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) would assume power. The foreign minister said the numb
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Venezuela deports suspected drug trafficker Guerrero Ibanez to Colombia
By: Wire Services
Venezuela deported a suspected drug trafficker on Tuesday, saying he was a former police officer involved in spiriting cocaine through the South American country. The suspect, Wilmer Ignacio Guerrero Ibanez, boarded a military plane amid heavily-armed
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Interview with Marcel Granier, CEO of RCTV International/1BC consortium
By: El Universal
Two years ago, on May 27, the open signal of private TV channel Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) stopped visiting Venezuelan households, as instructed by the Venezuelan government. Marcel Granier, the executive director of 1BC consortium, explained
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