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• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been called “Fidel Castro with oil. ... ” Unless charges of massive voter fraud by the Venezuelan are upheld, we are now stuck with another autocratic ruler in Latin America, an anti-American demagogue and an ally of Castro – with a democratic mandate.
• This was a reasonable and understandable decision, given the Venezuelan leader’s record as an international troublemaker and supporter of terrorist groups, among them, the vicious Colombian FARC. ...
• Six years of Chavez demagoguery has totally polarized Venezuelan society. ...
• In the end, furthermore, Chavez calculated that even if he did lose the referendum, he could run again in the presidential election that would be held 30 days later, in which he would probably defeat a disorganized Venezuelan opposition. ...
• If the result stands, however, we must continue to work with the Venezuelan opposition. ...

• However, as a Venezuelan company, we obviously pay the prevailing market-rate salaries for the Venezuelan job market to everyone we employ.
• So if we hire you, you will be making a Venezuelan wage.

• In a rare sequence of events, democratically elected leader President Hugo Chavez was overthrown in a military coup led by the business elite, only to be reinstated as president days later due to the support of the Venezuelan people.
• The Western media was quick to follow; one newspaper after another publishing only the version of events reported by the same business community that was attempting to overthrow the Venezuelan democracy.
• Venezuelan military and police refused to fire. ...
• The Bush Administration continued to show their support for the coup, with the State Department announcing, "We wish to express our solidarity the Venezuelan people and look forward to working with all democratic forces in Venezuela to ensure the full exercise of democratic rights. ...
• to use Venezuelan airspace for its "War on Drugs"; accusing the Bush Administration of "fighting terrorism with terrorism" by its assault on Afghanistan, saying that deaths due to U. ...

• International Center for Justice & Peace director Karen Talbot writes: The power elite in the United States has never been happy with democratically-elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias, but it took the Bush administration to turn up the heat against him.
• Matters reached a boiling point in April 2002 with the coup d'etat against Chavez Frias which surprisingly lasted only two days as millions of Venezuelan poor came to his defense.
• The mantra of complaints against Chavez Frias who had been elected in record landslide votes in 1998 and 2000, included his Bolivarian reforms to "take from the rich and give to the poor;" his refusal to allow US planes to fly over Venezuelan territory for its war in Colombia; his opposition to the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA); and his leadership in OPEC where he works for a fairer deal for Venezuela and other oil-producing countries by pushing up oil prices. ...
• According to an article in Proceso by Aram Ruben Aharonian, private investigations revealed that one of the moves of the 48-hour coup leaders was "the privatization of PDVSA, turning it over to a US company linked to President George Bush and the Spanish company Repsol; plus the sale of CITGO, the US subsidiary of PDVSA, to Gustavo Cisneros and his partners in the north: as well as an end to the Venezuelan government's exclusive subsoil rights. ...
• The giant PDVSA is owned by Venezuela, not a fiefdom of PDVSA board members put in place by the previous corrupt Venezuelan oligarchy. ...
• some Chavez Frias opponents left the meetings believing that 'all the United States really cared about was that it was done neatly, with a resignation letter or something to show for it,' said a Venezuelan source familiar with some of the discussions," Tayler reported. ...
• Further, the article points out that "pro-Chavez Venezuelan officials have said two members of the US Embassy's military attaches were briefly inside the coup-makers' military headquarters at Fort Tiuna on April 13. ... one of the US officers held an hour-long closed-door meeting with General Efrain Vasquez Velasco, the army commander, one Venezuelan official said. ...
• The London Guardian reported that in June 2003, American military attaches had been in touch with members of the Venezuelan military to examine the possibility of a coup. " It quoted journalist, Wayne Madsen, a former Naval and National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence officer as saying that US Navy ships "provided signals intelligence and communications jamming support" to the Venezuelan military during the coup attempt. ...
• Remembering the disturbing similarities to the US-instigated Chilean coup including the killing of democratically-elected President Allende in 1973 -- which succeeded after one failed coup attempt --the great majority of Venezuelan people are remaining vigilant to any further moves to oust Chavez Frias. ...
• It said "In the past year, the United States channeled hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to US and Venezuelan groups opposed to President Hugo Chavez. ...
• For example in 2000, ACILS received $60,084 " t o support the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers (CTV) to effect reforms intended to increase rank and file control over decision making. ...
• Even the statement issued by the AFL-CIO about the events in Venezuela said that in October and November 2001, CTV members voted in the "first one-member-one vote, secret ballot union election in Venezuelan history. ...
• Ironically, the Venezuelan unions' operations are more transparent than at any time in history partly because of a number of reforms that were launched by Chavez Frias who had pushed through a referendum calling for Mr. ...
• "  Yet, the ACILS Venezuelan operation should be seen in the context of the total amounts of money directed by NED to ACILS for work in other selected countries. ...

• Telephone Interview with Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez conducted 12 April - in midst of coup d'état .
• Although the president could not stay on the phone for long, due to the gravity of the situation and confusion in Caracas, Venezuelan government sources stated that several supporters of Chávez have been among the first victims of the clashes, pointing out that this has not been reported in the news media which have, moreover, transmitted only a few fragments of Chávez's long message to the people .
• Soldiers wave Venezuelan flag and raise weapons and berets hailing a crowd backing President Chavez as members of the coup government flee the palace through tunnels. ...

• International disputes: claims all of Guyana west of the Essequibo River; maritime boundary dispute with Colombia in the Gulf of Venezuela and the Caribbean Sea; US, France and the Netherlands recognize Venezuela's claim to give full effect to Aves Island, which creates a Venezuelan EEZ/continental shelf extending over a large portion of the Caribbean Sea; Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines protest the claim and other states' recognition of it.
• He is close to President Fidel Castro of Cuba, which receives Venezuelan oil at reduced prices.
• Venezuelan labor unions, business organizations, the media, and a good part of the military remained substantially less enchanted. ...
• Chavez, who had been shoring up his standing with the Venezuelan poor during the delays, won the referendum with an overwhelming 58% of the vote. ...
• Cruxent, Venezuelan Archaeology (1963); G. ...

• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defended Iran's right to pursue a nuclear energy programme, and vowed to back the country in its spat with the United States. ...
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's reputation as a radical had pr. ...
• | PARIS (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday gave the green light for the French oil giant Total to move ahead with a major project that will double its p. ...
• By ANNE GEARAN | ASSOCIATED PRESS | WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States "was not involved in any way" in a short-lived coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez but w. ...
• | BANGALORE, India: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday accused the United States of planning to portray his country as a security threat in order to capture its v. ...

• Tale of a Venezuelan in Boston.
• For those of you that did not know it, some important personalities of the Bolivarian Revolution will visit Boston to give the Bostonians their perspectives on Venezuelan matters. Several events have been organized by the Bostonian Bolivarian Circles as well as by the Venezuelan Embassy and CITGO (yes the same CITGO that the government wants to sell!). ...
• News round up from the Venezuelan dictatorship in the making.
• PS: But all is not lost in Venezuela: last Sunday Tulio Alvarez held the first significant rally from the Venezuelan opposition in months, once again to protest against government undue intervention in higher education. ...
• The two Venezuelan soldiers burnt died of their injury.
• 2- The Venezuelan state has proven itself a most deficient steward of National Parks in general. ...
• Well, not this Venezuelan blogger who can hardly see how a theocracy ruling a country where it forces women to wear veils and limits all sorts of Human Rights can be a blessing anywhere. ... The Venezuelan opposition tries out a new organization While Chavez and Khatami played world trouble makers in the tractor factory, the Venezuelan opposition played yet another scene of its painful Hamletian tragedy. ...
• Today the newly appointed constitutional Hall of the Venezuelan High Court (TSJ) has taken its first major decision. ... Today, THAT DECISION WHICH WAS TAKEN BY THE COMPLETE TSJ and had in the Venezuelan judicial system an imprint of a final decision, HAS BEEN REVERTED BY ONE OF THE HALLS OF THE TSJ, a newly appointed out at that, under a new law. ... If the implications for the Venezuelan citizen are indeed obvious, there are also implications for foreign nationals. ...
• Thus this blog, a perhaps strange mix of news, comments, views, and pictures on the Venezuelan situation. ...
• Tale of a Venezuelan in Boston Announcement The Bolivarians come to Boston News round up from the Venezuelan dictatorship in the making The way we were: Lebanon now The two Venezuelan soldiers burnt died of their injury Requiem for Hato Piñero? Ecological mess in the making in Venezuela? Venezuela dysfunctionality From Judicial Precedent to Judicial Activism in Venezuela: the official date is today Chavez in Paris: an American in Paris it is not* .
• Still on line presentation with two graphs that summarize the rather dismal economic performance of the Venezuelan government since 1999. ...

• But I have government-censored Venezuelan dailies, before the time of Chavez, with blank pages. ...
• Venezuelan Government Charges U. ...
• Interview with PDVSA's Ali Rodriguez “The Main Obstacle Is the Administrative Structure of the Venezuelan State” .
• Letter condemning the US actions that prevented Venezuelan President Chavez from going to the US to speak at the UN .
• Position of the Venezuelan government at the 127th conference of OPEC with regard to the status of Iraq in OPEC while under occupation .
• Position of the Venezuelan government in the fifth ministerial meeting of the WTO .

• A famous Venezuelan referred to oil as the devil's excrement. ...
• My Sections: Venezuela Orchids Pictures RR Studies Digressions Technology and Science LatinAmerica The Fable GranmaLies Posters Venezuelan Beauties For a better Venezuela: Tyromaniac VenezuelaToday DanielNews Venenews Reason over Might vcrisis Burtonterrace Veninvestor SixthRepublic Caracas Chronicles Carlanga Letter from Venezuela urru. ...
• Last week's recall victory by Venezuelan strongman President Hugo Chavez is likely to create long-term trouble for American interests in the Western Hemisphere. ...
• 15 Venezuelan recall referendum. ...
• "Unfortunately, it has not been possible to secure with the Venezuelan electoral authorities the conditions to carry out an observation in line with the Union's standard methodology," the European Commission declared.
• Carter's complicity in the prevention of a reliable vote count was a betrayal of Venezuelan democracy.

• In New York to meet with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, President Hugo Chávez says Venezuelan oil production has returned to about one-third pre-work action levels, reports Bloomberg. ...
• It described the situation as the "biggest example of wealth destruction in Venezuelan history".
• "The problem of obtaining insurance for tankers calling at Venezuelan oil ports has previously been noted in El Sur, here, here and (as early as December 17) here. ...
• The analysis, written after Chávez's speech, noted below, notes the contrast between his admission that the Venezuelan oil company produced barely 150,000 barrels a day during December and his assertion just a week ago that PDVSA production was back to one-million barrels a day. ...
• Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the military to prepare to seize food supplies to prevent starvation in the country after a national strike caused shortages of everything from milk to meat. ...
• Tankers are refusing to enter Venezuelan ports because operational and security problems have made it difficult if not impossible to obtain insurance. ...
• "Cisneros is an extremely wealthy Venezuelan, the owner of one of Latin America's largest media groups. ...

• You can buy a plastic-bound copy of the Venezuelan Constitution for 60 cents, a leather-clad copy for $3, a coffee-table edition for $5. ...
• I meet her late one morning in Nueva Grenada, a grimy, run-down neighborhood in the Venezuelan capital, and the mid-October day is unseasonably hot. ...
• It soon became clear that high-ranking officials in the Bush administration had been in close contact with those plotting the coup -- including Pedro Carmona, the Venezuelan businessman who briefly replaced Chávez. ...
• And for the first time in Venezuelan history, ordinary citizens are being encouraged to create and elect local councils, to work with local officials to improve their neighborhoods, to get directly involved in their government. ...
• Hugo Chávez burst into Venezuelan politics in 1992 very much uninvited, as the mastermind of a coup attempt that saw tanks roll right to the gates of Miraflores. ...
• Awash in a seeming sea of money, Venezuelan elites built themselves wide highways, a sparkling subway, a glittering array of office towers and luxury apartments, a beautiful national theater. ...
• Democratic Action and COPEI, the two political parties that long dominated Venezuelan politics, have all but collapsed in recent years, and opponents of Chávez now have no real leaders or political platform. ...
• "The Venezuelan people are not the same people they were even a few years ago," she says. ...
• Venezuelan Constitution (in Spanish) .

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