Hugo Chavez

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 30 days ago
AP - The decrees declared by Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez: ...

Source: www.iht.com --- 3 days ago
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is on his first visit to South Africa and is preparing to sign an important energy deal. ...

Source: yro.slashdot.org --- 8 days ago
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Wikileaks seems to be a bit hard-up for cash, so they're trying a little experiment. They plan to auction off an archive with three years worth of Hugo Chavez' email. The winner will get a period of embargoed access to break any stories they can find in the files, while Wikileaks will later publish the archive in full. Wikileaks plans to use the profits for their legal defense fund, but they may run into trouble because most reputable news outlets have policies against paying sources." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

Source: arstechnica.com --- 8 days ago
In a first for the leaks site, Wikileaks hopes to raise cash and attract attention by auctioning off a high-profile new leak: a collection of e-mails allegedly gleaned from a senior Hugo Chavez aide. Read More... ...

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 8 days ago
Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, who during his tenure was nicknamed "Red Ken" for his socialist political leanings, is to work as a consultant for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the BBC reports. Livingstone, a longtime Chavez supporter, "will advise pro-government mayors in the capital Caracas on urban planning." He said he was proud and honored to be part of the Venezuelan city's transformation, the BBC notes:As mayor, Mr. Livingstone struck a deal to swap cheap Venezuelan oil for city planning advice, but it was cancelled by his successor Boris Johnson. After a meeting with Mr Chavez in Caracas on Wednesday, the former mayor said he was pleased that Venezuela would now get the "advice that we promised." The BBC's James Ingham said the two men, who share left-wing political views, hugged each other like old friends.Read the rest of the BBC dispatch on Hugo Chavez and former London mayor Ken Livingstone here. Click here for more on Venezuela. -- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City ...

Source: www.salon.com --- 3 days ago
Is Sarah Palin Big Oil's pawn or the Hugo Chavez of Alaska? Just the fact that we can even ask that question is yet another reason why the 2008 campaign for president of the United States is proving to be the most entertaining political freak show in memory. But the question is far from rhetorical. Palin's eagerness to promote drilling in ANWR and offshore has led Obama supporters to the easy conclusion that she is in the tank for the energy industry. Yet a closer look at the facts on the ground in Alaska suggests that pigeonholing the governor in such a small coop misreads what's really going on. One of the biggest ongoing energy stories in Alaska is the nearly 30-year-long struggle to get a new mega-pipeline built that will ensure the state continues to live large off of its immense natural gas reserves for decades to come. At the moment, two contenders are vying for the right to build such a pipeline. On one side, BP and ConocoPhillips, two energy companies that, along with Exxon, own potentially lucrative leases to pump natural gas in Alaska. The other proposal belongs to TransCanada, a Calgary-based pipeline builder. Sarah Palin backs TransCanada. Indeed, just a few days before she was selected as the Republican vice-presidential nominee, she signed a bill declaring that TransCanada satisfied the legal requirements of the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, which Palin had pushed through the Alaska Legislature in March 2007. The " ...

Source: news.telegraph.co.uk --- 35 days ago
President Hugo Chavez has struck a new blow to diplomatic relations between his country and Spain with the surprise announcement that he will nationalise the Spanish owned Bank of Venezuela as part of his ongoing campaign to boost government control over the economy. ...

Source: www.miamiherald.com --- 30 days ago
The decrees declared by Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez: ...

Source: www.bostonherald.com --- 29 days ago
ASUNCION, Paraguay - Venezuela has sent 70 million liters (18.5 million gallons) of diesel fuel to support Paraguay's incoming president. Paraguay oil company director... ...

Source: www.miamiherald.com --- 29 days ago
Venezuela has sent 70 million liters (18.5 million gallons) of diesel fuel to support Paraguay's incoming president. ...

Source: newsbusters.org --- 31 days ago
An authoritarian thug who runs the fourth largest exporter of oil to the United States is " Giving $1.5 million to a Maryland charity, " the Washington Post reported today on page eight of its Business section. Citgo, the Venezuelan-owned oil company, is making a $1.5 million donation to the Silver Spring nonprofit group CASA of Maryland to help fund educational, training and economic development programs for low-income and immigrant workers. The contribution is the latest effort by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to reach out to the poor in the United States in what critics call an attempt to curry favor with low-income Americans and embarrass President Bush. Of course CASA de Maryland , among other things, advocates for amnesty for illegal immigrants, yet nowhere in Alejandro Lazo's August 5 article did the Post staffer even mention the word "illegal" to modify the term immigrants. ...

Source: www.reason.com --- 30 days ago
In December, Venezuela's president lost a referendum that would have granted him near-dictatorial powers and the chance to become president for life. Yes, he lost it. Not that you could tell. President Hugo Chávez has enacted a slew of presidential decrees which formalize the creation of a popular militia and further consolidate state control over key areas of the economy such as agriculture and tourism. Mr. Chávez... published the decrees on Friday, just at the close of a special 18-month period that allowed him to bypass Congress in making laws. But only the titles, and not the texts, of the decrees were released. On Tuesday, the government made the full texts widely available.   The Jose de Cordoba and Darcy Crowe story runs down the changes, although this one stood out for me. Among the biggest changes -- and one which was turned down in December -- was the creation of another branch of the military, a "National Bolivarian Militia," which analysts say could challenge the position and role of the traditional armed forces... Mr. Chávez also changed the name of the armed forces, which are supposed to be apolitical, from the National Armed Forces. They are now to be called the National Bolivarian Armed Forces, invoking the title Mr. Chávez has chosen for his self-proclaimed socialist revolution. Quoth Chavez ally Mario Isea: Of course there are going to be similarities [to the December referendum.] It's the same person who is legi ...

Source: multimedia.thetimes.co.za --- 3 days ago
President Thabo Mbeki hosted the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, for bilateral, political, economic and trade relations at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Tuesday. Chavez is the first Venezuelan president to pay a state visit to South Africa. ...

Source: frontierindia.net --- 2 days ago
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says the Petroleum, Oil and Gas Corporation of South Africa (PetroSA) should begin exploiting his country’s oil reserves, which are the largest in the world. PetroSA, which operates and manages South Africa’s commercial assets in the petroleum industry and actively pursues exploration opportunities, he said should begin this as soon as [...] ...

Source: blogs.thetimes.co.za --- 2 days ago
An extract from the input given by Venezualan president, Hugo Chavez’s media briefing with South African president, Thabo Mbeki: Fortunately the attempt to impose on the world hegemony and uni-polar world has failed. In the horizon we can see rising a multi-polar world, and that is precisely the world we need. The bi-polar was terrible to [...] ...

Source: www.indybay.org --- 2 days ago
Compare the method and similarity between Obama's proposed spending of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to help the poor and Socialist Hugo Chavez's proposed programs in 1992 when running for President of Venezuela. ...

Source: www.indybay.org --- 24 days ago
How Venezuela is leading the revolutionary integration of South America. ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 19 days ago
SAN PEDRO, PARAGUAY -- On his first full day in office, President Fernando Lugo traveled Saturday to this agricultural zone where he first won acclaim as a Roman Catholic bishop defending the landles... ...

Source: www.blog.com.mx --- 7 days ago
Chávez impondrá la censura a los contenidos de Internet El presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, aplicará en los próximos meses los 26 decretos que aprobó el pasado 31 de julio y modificará la Ley de Telecomunicaciones. Esto le permitirá controlar el único canal de comunicación libre que quedaba en Venezuela: Internet. La aplicación de los nuevos [...] ...