venezuela politics

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Venezuala seems to have some issues with its prisons. From the link: Venezuela has one of the highest crime and homicide rates in Latin America, and the judicial system is struggling to cope with the caseload. The prison population has been increasing with many of those incarcerated waiting...

Socialism is awesome. Who needs light, heat, industry and stuff like that anyway? Rolling blackout affects more than half the country. But in a surprise move, President Maduro gave an honest appraisal and blamed the rampant government incompetence, corruption, mismanagement and the ruling...

...so says CNN Chile.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gsxBCX_xWFzdkHQ7BkxsyA4NEY5A?docId=00c482f15d21430fbd4850071d6baac3 I'm no fan of Chavez, but I have watched family members die from cancer and while I admire his optimism, I would expect that at the very least, he will be unable to continue...

I'm watching the following excerpt from a press conference that was done to President Chavez, in which Andreina, the reporter, asked him: "Given that the Socialist party obtained a result of 5.4 million votes and the opposition obtained a result of 5.3 million, how come the opposition has 37...

An interesting article about the Socialist process in Venezuela. part I http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/5464 Part II http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/5492

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/07/13/venezuela.politician.arrested/index.html?hpt=T2 And the Chavez fanboys will show up justifying this in 3....2....

Hugo seizes rigs belonging to a service company. They were in dispute about millions in payments being owed to the company from the state oil company so Chavez decides to seize the rigs...

The report came in three hours ago, and wasn't posted before, and we could use just one more Venezuela thread :) http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/06/12/venezuela.media.arrest/index.html?hpt=T2 The Venezuelan government has issued an arrest warrant against the president of one of the...

interesting Article about Venezuela compared to Greece. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/may/06/venezuela-greece-economic-crisis what are your thoughts?

Not only are PDVSA in debt to service companies to the tunes of billions of dollars, they now have a strike on their hands. While not affecting production it is affecting drilling which will hit them further down the line...

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/americas/US-Warns-Venezuela-on-Weapons-Purchase-89947007.html More wartoys for Hugo. do they need it? what are your thoughts?

we now have several topic in this subforum where we hear about the evil things this movement has brought to south america, especially Venezuela. i wonder if people around here know if they also had some possitive impact. for example, the Venezuelan Missions that provide food, heatlhcare and...

The leaders should be bold enough to state an opinion before Chavez says it For those interested about Venezuelan Politics and/or the 21. Century Socialism. the Biased "propaganda" outlet Venezuelaanalysis published a very good article. A critical view on the Bolivarian process in Venezuela...

Chávez says yes to Russian base Putin's Navy, Chávez's Ambition, and the Caribbean Adventure Putin, Chavez Meet for Talks Never mind the former empire's human rights abuses and murder during the cold war. Never mind that the former empire annexed half of Europe and helped separate families...

Eva Gollinger, the author that exposed the US involvement in the Coup attempt 2002 in Venezuela, wrote a little article. Very intersting. http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/4296 Im dont know how much of it is true, what do you think?

Presumably he is making a list of opposition journalists because he loves their work and doesn't want to miss a single column. http://reason.com/blog/show/132076.html Put this down on the list of things "not to worry about" regarding Chavez.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/14/venezuela.chavez.expelled.dictator/index.html Countdown until his supporters here show up to tell us how wonderful and necessary his action was....3...2....1....

What is the difference between an Executive Order from the US president, and a Decree from the Venezuelan President?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090119/wl_nm/us_venezuela_chavez_1

Like Bush, Chavez doesn't think much of protests. "Load up, load up, load up with rubber bullets" --10CC

I'd kinda like to be the President so I can show you how your money's spent I know you're working for the CIA they wouldn't have you in the Mafia Why can't we be friends? --War

Venezuelan Opposition Attacks Chavistas during Governor’s Swearing in Ceremony http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4096 Shortly after the anouncement that the Chavista lost the regional elections in Caracas, opposition groups atacked social missions in Caracas and harased the people working...

http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2009/01/07/venezuela_expels_israeli_ambassador/afp/ But no word about Hamas rockets :( What do you think about such Protests. I miss the Balance, i think its OK to send the Ambassador home, but atleast a few words against Hamas would atleast a little bit...

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.