hugo chavez

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4064 Poverty and inequality in Venezuela keep dropping according to Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal), they showed a decrease of 2.5% and 0.9% respectively for 2008 compared to last year. especially Healthcare improved enormly...

So it seems Chavez is ratcheting up the rhetoric in the run up to elections in a couple of weeks: The speech in question: ooVlAa3Y53s You may argue that this is just rhetoric, but imagine if Bush had said he would bring out the tanks to defend the people if McCain had lost? Even joking that...

Apparently, the strategy of trying to isolate Russia helping Georgia may not have worked as planned! Venezuela wants to work with Russia on nuclear energy CARACAS (AFP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that he was interested in accepting Russia's offer of help in developing a...

Venezuela Plays The Russia Card On Monday, Russia accepted Chavez's invitation for a first-ever joint naval exercise with Venezuela. In its first major maneuvers off U.S. waters since the Cold War, Russia will send a heavily armed nuclear cruiser to the Caribbean [..] What is well-known is...

Link I wonder how former Congressman Joe Kennedy (D-MA) feels about "our friends in Venezuela," right now.

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From here: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN2540966820080325?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=22&sp=true First the NY Times attacks him, now Chavez warns against him and his warlike ways. . . . I must say, I never thought Karl Rove was that smart, but with this bit of...

Chavez sends tanks to Colombia border in dispute by Saul Hudson Full Reuters Article

Link Next up: Britney Spears interviews Pervez Musharraf and Paris Hilton interviews Nicholas Sarkozy.

Well, maybe residents of the former communist nations, but why should Venezuelans be expected to learn from history. Article Excerpt: The lines for basic foods at subsidized prices are paradoxical for an oil-rich nation that in many ways is a land of plenty. Shopping malls are bustling, new car...

An example of the principle that having fanatical religion in your "united front" is like having the Mafia for a business partner. At one time I would have said that about Communism. Tehran's price for solidarity (NY Post) Setting the stage. Who controls the present controls the past...

The BBC ran an article about Hugo Chavez today, titled "Venezuela head outlines changes". The article goes on to say: "President Chavez told the [Venezuelan National] Assembly his proposals only affected 10% of the constitution." (Emphasis mine.) I'm sorry to say that I and my whole family...

Randi wrote: "I really think that any other TV authority anywhere in the civilized world - with the exception of Venezuela, as we've recently learned - would be not only alarmed, but seriously concerned about such blatant bowdlerization, ..." What has Randi learned about TV authorities in...

Link "Huge profits." Love it. When (not if) Chavez takes over the banks, I think we'll see them nasty old huge profits go away. They'll go to Costa Rica or to the US or to China, where people actually understand how money works (think how inconceiveable having "China" in that sentence would have...

So I noticed this on CNN.com: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/03/04/venezuela.chavez.ap/index.html While denouncing the appointment of Rice's new assistant, Chavez expresses the belief that the US wants to kill him and makes the claim: ETA: Oh noes! This is number 666, post count of...

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maybe its just alex jones. maybe not. but it seems like there are alot of 9-11 truthers and others who claim to be against the "nwo"....but support hugo chavez. yet ceaser chavez wants to nationalize industries, and gain powers to enact laws by decree, similar to what hitler and stalin had...

I was reading the BBC site this morning "President Hugo Chavez has pledged to nationalise key Venezuelan companies, as part of plans to transform the country into a full socialist state." And I was wondering why, someone who plans to use the full power of the state to gather power into the...

I just saw a TV commercial with Joseph Kennedy III speaking about people unable to afford to heat their homes in the winter. He was touting the CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program, wherein apparently Venezuela is using the state ownership of Citgo to tout their national contribution to relieving...

Thoughts? Chavez seems to have won election fair and square. But his own constitution limits him to two 6 year terms: this is his second one. How can the world ensure that he steps down after his second term so that good governance can supercede individual charisma? I think the best way is to...

Chavez seems to have become our newest brown-faced nemesis from the South, gunning for Castro's role, complete with getting cheered by a harlem church and becoming a darling of part of the American Left. But surely there are Venezuelans, as brown as him, who are critics of the less democratic...

In this era of "my party/candidate is automatically right and yours is completely worthless" ridiculous BS, this was REALLY refreshing: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/21/chavez.ny/index.html Of course stating that Chavez is an obnoxious ass who's just begging to be smacked states the...

And their fanclub goes wild... http://www.ninjaproxy.com/cgiproxy/nph-proxy.pl/001110A/http/s15.invisionfree.com/Loose_Change_Forum/index.php?showtopic=14550 http://s15.invisionfree.com/Loose_Change_Forum/index.php?showtopic=14550

Yep. Just now on CNN (obviously, I'm working from home today). Chavez stood in front of the U.N. and said called the president of the United States the devil. "The devil came here yesterday," he said to some not-so-quiet applause. He went on to say that he could still smell the sulfur left...

The title of the news story says it all... http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13401534/ The guy doesn't have some Cold War US interference as a bloody shirt to wave, and apparently he can't invent one himself.

We all knew something like this was coming. What to do ... Let's take a look at the list of Chavez's friends thus far, possibly in Chronological order Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Bolivia, Belarus, Russia, North Korea Venezuela's Chavez to sign Russia arms deal...

When you think Chavez is running out of surprises... A little background first. Every year, Rio holds a parade that comprises 14 samba schools, in a show that lasts two nights. Those samba schools are created and managed, mostly, by slum-dwellers. It is indeed a testament not only of their...

Didn't we conclude in some threads here that Hitler was not elected but appointed? Not to mention that the opposition was being assassinated as he rose to power. So, what is Rumsfeld trying to say here? This line is used very offen when talking about unsavory, elected foreign officials.

Well, much skepticism was expressed about whether Chavez' claims of sending heating oil to poor communities in the US was all just smoke in mirrors. Looks like it's actually happening.

WHAT the ----?? http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/08/09/chavez.invasion.ap/index.html Any particular reason this guy feels a need to pound on our kneecap like a bratty little kid and babble incoherently? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?