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- Chavez Batters Bottom Line of Oil Service Companies
- Oil service companies already owed billions from Venezuela's state-run Petroleos de Venezuela are at risk of losing the very moneymaking assets that help produce oil from the OPEC member nation. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has the power under a new law to seize local assets of international...
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
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- Venezuela's Chavez to discuss poverty with Pope Benedict
- CARACAS AFP — Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez will discuss poverty when he meets for the first time with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, the state news agency said citing diplomatic sources. "Poverty is a shared problem in Latin America and in the case of Venezuela, Chavez' current government...
- Research articles 2006-05-09
- Fitch, Colin Powell Take Aim at Chavez
- Fitch, Colin Powell Take Aim at Chavez The government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is coming under attack from the US on both the economic and political fronts. Fitch Ratings, the US bond-rating concern, downgraded Venezuela's long-term foreign currency bond rating to B-plus from BB-minus...
- Research articles 2002-02-07
- Coke Zero: Chavez Not Crazy This Time?
- Venezuela's health minister ordered a halt to Coke Zero production last week, in order to "preserve the health of Venezuelans." At the time, no specific reason was cited, which made it look like just another crazy move by Hugo Chavez' government to thwart capitalism in an arbitrary manner. ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Chavez to set up 'people's militia' as opponents push for recall
- CARACAS AFP ? President Hugo Chavez announced his government would establish "people's militias" to counter what he called foreign interference after an alleged coup plot by Colombian paramilitaries Caracas claims was financed by Washington. Chavez also said he would boost the strength of Venezuela's armed forces as part of...
- Research articles 2004-05-16
- Chavez threatens UN complaint, if no action against Robertson
- CARACAS AFP — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned he would lodge a complaint against the United States at the United Nations and other international bodies if the US government fails to act against television evangelist Pat Robertson, who had called for Chavez's assassination. "If the US government does not...
- Research articles 2005-08-28
- Chavez accepts apology from Robertson but still might sue
- CARACAS AFP — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that he accepted a letter of apology from US televangelist Pat Robertson, who called two weeks ago for Chavez' assassination. But Chavez, speaking in his weekly television show "Hello, President," said he would reserve the right to sue Robertson. On...
- Research articles 2005-09-04
- Chavez Foes Slam Award of Deltana Licenses to Chevron, Statoil.
- Foes of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez are fuming about the government's award on Monday of the much-awaited private licenses to explore the $3.8 billion Deltana Platform gas project. Foes of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez are fuming about the government's award on Monday of the...
- Research articles 2003-02-12
- US offers hand of cooperation after firebrand Chavez reelected
- WASHINGTON AFP — The United States extended an offer of cooperation to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after the vituperatively anti-American leftist won reelection. "President Chavez has been re-elected for another term in office, and we would hope that we could have a positive, constructive relationship with the government of Venezuela,"...
- Research articles 2006-12-04
- Chavez supporters take to streets to back TV network shutdown
- CARACAS AFP — Hundreds of thousands of President Hugo Chavez's backers Saturday marched in a show of support for his controversial closure of an opposition television station, now an international scandal. Supporters of the leftist president marched under his slogan of "democratizing television and radio," one day after students...
- Research articles 2007-06-02
- Colombia backs Chavez plan for FARC hostages' release
- CARACAS AFP — Colombian Marxist rebels were expected to free three hostages after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won the Colombian government's approval Wednesday for his plan for the handover. Bogota gave its nod to the plan hours after Chavez said it was the only thing standing in the way...
- Research articles 2007-12-26
- Chavez warns of spooky US Halloween 'terrorism'
- CARACAS AFP — President Hugo Chavez cautioned Venezuelan parents to protect their children from Halloween with a spooky warning that the US tradition is rooted in "terrorism." "What they have implanted here, which is really a 'gringo' custom, is terrorism," Chavez said, quoted in the local press. "They disguise...
- Research articles 2005-10-31
- Chavez says he's captured 4 U.S. spies
- CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela has caught four people spying for the American government, but a U.S. Embassy spokesman said Saturday that he had "no idea what the president is talking about." Without offering specifics, Chavez said that one woman was caught not long ago...
- Research articles 2006-08-20
- Chavez to prepare for possible hostage transfer from FARC
- CIENFUEGOS, Cuba AFP — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said at a summit that he would make preparations in case Colombian rebels release three hostages to his government as they have promised. "It is a delicate operation," Chavez said Friday at the close of the PetroCaribe summit in Cuba's southern...
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- US govt probes voting machine manufacturer for Chavez ties
- WASHINGTON AFP — The US government has launched an investigation of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting machines following allegations of its ties to the government of leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, officials said. But the parent company of the firm, Oakland, California-based Sequoia Voting Systems, Inc., vehemently denied...
- Research articles 2006-10-30
- Peruvian government to auction for Jorge Chavez airport next week.
- The Peruvian government will receive on October 27, 2000 bids for the concession of the Jorge Chavez international airport. According to the government, 8 groups have qualified to bid: Peru Puerta Aerea, whoseairport operator will be San Francisco International Airport; YVR Airport Service, whose operator will...
- Research articles 2000-10-19
- Venezuela's Chavez pledges support for Chinese oil exploration
- BEIJING AFP — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has pledged support for Chinese companies to take part in oil exploration and pipeline construction projects in his country, state media said. Emphasizing that bilateral energy partnerships have a "bright future," Chavez, who is visiting China, said the Venezuelan government would grant...
- Research articles 2004-12-24
- Linda Chavez: industry's White House link.
- WASHINGTON FNS -- When business savvy is required on Capitol Hill, Linda Chavez makes the sales pitch to the nation's number one salesman. Newly installed as director of the White House's Office of Public Liaison OPL, Chavez orchestrated the briefing on tax reform of...
- Research articles 1985-07-10
- Chavez calls Bush 'killer', 'madman'
- CARACAS AFP — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lashed out at his US counterpart, George W. Bush, calling him a "killer" and a "madman" after a top US diplomat criticized Caracas. "The planet's most serious danger is the government of the United States. ... The people of the United States...
- Research articles 2005-11-18
- US anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan hails Venezuela's Chavez
- CARACAS AFP — Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq, joined more than 10,000 anti-globalization activists in Caracas, where she hailed Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez. "I admire him for his resolve against my government and its meddling," said Sheehan, who gained notoriety when...
- Research articles 2006-01-24
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