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Venezuela stories: 157 news summaries

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 Chávez Begins 
 4-Day Talkathon 

Venezuelan president takes to the airwaves for 10th anniversary

May 29, 09 6:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hugo Chávez is on the air for the first part of his four-day talk show marathon, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Venezuelan president's rambling television broadcast. As the BBC reports, today's Alo Presidente got under way in an electrical plant in the country's west, where Chávez regaled... More »

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television • Venezuela • talk show • Hugo Chávez

Hugo Chavez Stoked for 4-Day TV Talkshow

The fun just won't stop on all-singing, all-firing extravaganza

May 28, 09 5:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - That wacky Hugo Chavez is celebrating the 10th anniversary of his weekly talkshow, Alo Presidente, by taking to the airwaves—for four solid days, the Guardian reports. Starting today, the unscripted show will be in segments "like a soap opera," Chavez promises. Viewers expect the Venezuelan president's... More »

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television • Venezuela • talk show • Hugo Chávez

Chavez Hints at Ditching OAS to Form Cuba Partnership

Nations eye alternative regional group

May 26, 09 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Venezuela would jump at the chance to join Cuba as an Organization of American States outcast, reports the AP. The never-shy Hugo Chavez claims the OAS, which suspended Cuba in 1962, serves US interests and says the two countries could form an alternative regional group. Cuba's foreign minister agreed, calling... More »

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Latin America • Venezuela • Cuba • Hugo Chávez • Organization of American States

Chavez Takes Control of Iron, Steel Firms

Metal companies nationalized 'to build platform for socialism'

May 22, 09 6:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hugo Chavez has ordered the nationalization of several large iron and steel companies in Venezuela, AFP reports. The president said the takeovers marked the start of a "process of nationalization to create an industrial complex." The move, which follows the nationalization of 39 oil service providers, would help... More »

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Venezuela • nationalization • iron • steel • Hugo Chávez

Chávez Targets Cable Station as Tensions Rise

Move part of a larger effort to extend govt's reach, say critics

May 15, 09 7:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Venezuela is taking steps to shut down an anti-Chávez TV news station as tensions continue to grow between the government and opposition. Authorities have accused the station of "media terrorism" by covering an earthquake before the government released an official report. Three months after winning a referendum that... More »

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Latin America • Venezuela • Hugo Chávez • opposition

Chavez
Tightens Grip
on Oil Industry

Venezuela to
take control of
oil service companies

May 8, 09 6:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is stepping up state control of his nation's oil industry, the BBC reports. The president has announced plans to seize the assets of some foreign oil contractors who threatened to stop work in protest over unpaid bills, and the country's national assembly has approved measures to... More »

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Venezuela • nationalization • Hugo Chávez • oil industry

Obama Puts Human Rights on Back Burner, Activists Say

Sometimes confrontation isn't best tactic, administration suggests

May 5, 09 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Human-rights workers had high hopes for the Obama administration after President Bush’s inconsistent, too-hot-too-cold policies—but so far, the Washington Post reports, activists think President Obama has let rights take a back seat to more pressing concerns. For example, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said pushing China on human... More »

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China • Hillary Clinton • Darfur • Venezuela • human rights • human rights violations • human rights activists • Obama administration

 Mineral Overdose Killed 
 Polo Horses: Officials 

Selenium overdose likely claimed animals' lives

Apr 28, 09 3:03 PM CDT
(AP) - Florida officials say a mineral overdose is the probable cause of death for 21 Venezuelan-owned polo horses that fell ill as they prepared for a championship match earlier this month. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said today the animals likely overdosed on selenium, a common mineral that... More »

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Florida • Venezuela • horse • Palm Beach • Department of Agriculture • polo • Lechuza Caracas

(Newser) - Exactly what killed 21 polo horses in Florida is not known, but details of their enigmatic owner are emerging in spades. Victor Vargas has succeeded at the tricky proposition of banking in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, and tried the US market—with less-than-stellar results. In 1993, he had to settle... More »

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sports • Venezuela • horse • Hugo Chávez • banking • medication • Federal Reserve Bank of New York • polo • US Open Polo Championship • Victor Vargas

opinion

Penn: Rush, Cheney 'Among Greatest Cowards' Ever


Apr 21, 09 10:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sean Penn is a little agitated about all the abuse President Obama is taking for shaking hands with Hugo Chavez. It's nothing but the "posturing of our nation's most bitter and humanly impotent voices," he writes in the Huffington Post. Obama should have been tougher goes the refrain... More »

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Dick Cheney • Venezuela • Sean Penn • Hugo Chávez • President Obama

(Newser) - Florida has opened a criminal investigation into the deaths of 21 polo horses over the weekend in Palm Beach, USA Today reports, aiming to find out if negligence or foul play might have been behind the incident. “We would be looking at any and all possible leads,” said... More »

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Venezuela • horse • death • polo

 Obama Defends Handshake, 
 Urges Cuba to Free Prisoners 

Bolivian prez accuses US of assassination plot

Apr 19, 09 3:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama defended his friendly chat with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and asked Cuba to free its political prisoners, the Wall Street Journal reports. At the close of the Summit of the America's today, Obama brushed off Republican criticism, saying that turning a new page with Venezuela and Cuba represents... More »

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Barack Obama • Latin America • Venezuela • Mexico • Cuba • Bolivia • Mexican drug war • assassination • Evo Morales • political prisoner • Hugo Chávez • microfinance

Chavez Reappoints
Ambassador to US

Venezuelan president looks to better relationship with Obama

Apr 19, 09 4:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has reappointed an ambassador to the US, reports the Wall Street Journal. Pending approval from Washington, the post will be the first exchange of diplomats between the two countries since Venezuela ejected its American ambassador last year in solidarity with Bolivia. The move is yet another... More »

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Barack Obama • diplomacy • Venezuela • Hugo Chávez • Summit of the Americas

(Newser) - Latin American and Caribbean leaders praised President Obama today for reaching out to Cuba and urged him to end America's trade embargo with the communist nation, Reuters reports. After Brazil, Venezuela, and Caribbean nations applauded Obama's call for a "new beginning with Cuba" at a summit in Port... More »

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Barack Obama • Venezuela • Cuba • Hugo Chávez • Summit of the Americas

 The World's Best Waterfalls 


Apr 18, 09 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Waterfalls are a prime tourist destination, and for good reason. Travel + Leisure runs down a list of the “world’s most spectacular,” but check before you go. Visit in the wrong season and you’ll see just a trickle. And dams can turn off the spectacle... More »

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environment • Zimbabwe • Venezuela • Arizona • United States • Norway • Hawaii • Niagara Falls • waterfall • natural wonder

(Newser) - President Obama smiled and shook hands with Hugo Chavez today, only a month after the anti-American Venezuelan leader called Obama "ignorant," the Times of London reports. "I want to be your friend," said Chavez today. The White House had said Obama would not meet personally... More »

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Barack Obama • Venezuela • Hugo Chávez • Summit of the Americas

Chavez Looks to Smooth Tensions with US

Venezuelan president ready to 'press the reset button'

Apr 5, 09 5:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez indicated yesterday that he hopes to ease tensions between his leftist government and the US, reports Reuters. The Cuba ally has long been a vocal critic of American policies, famously calling former President Bush "the devil" and dismissing Barack Obama as an "ignoramus.... More »

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Barack Obama • Venezuela • Trinidad • international relations • Hugo Chávez • George W. Bush

Chavez Rounding Up
Top Political Foes

Is president tightening grip as oil prices drop?

Apr 3, 09 7:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Venezuelan government arrested opposition figure Raúl Baduel yesterday, the second such move in recent weeks, the Wall Street Journal reports. Baduel, a former defense minister and ally of President Hugo Chavez, helped restore the president to power after a coup in 2002, but he helped rally opposition to... More »

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Venezuela • arrest • political prisoner • Hugo Chávez • Raul Baduel • oil prices

Gitmo So 'Fun,' Miss Universe 'Didn't Want to Leave'

'It was very interesting,' she writes in blog

Apr 1, 09 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Not many people have fun at Guantanamo Bay, but Miss Universe did. Caracas-born beauty Dayana Mendoza visited the US naval base surrounded by barbed wire and watchtowers yesterday, and had a "relaxing, calm" time, she said. It was a "loooot of fun!" she wrote in her blog.... More »

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Venezuela • Miss Universe • Guantanamo Bay • USO • Guantanamo prisoners • Miss Universe pageant • Miss Venezuela

(Newser) - Russian bombers may find a home in Latin America, Bloomberg reports. Venezuela and Cuba have offered to let Moscow use their airfields, and a top military official seems to like the idea. “If the heads of the two countries show the will, the political will, then we are prepared... More »

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Russia • Venezuela • Cuba • missile defense system • bomber patrol

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