Chavez appoints official to govern Caracas

President Hugo Chavez has appointed a member of his ruling party as the top authority in Venezuela's capital.

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WASHINGTON - The growing relationship between Venezuela and Iran is stoking the nuclear ambitions of both countries and needs to be more carefully tracked by U.S. authorities, a veteran New York prosecutor said Tuesday.

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"There can be no freedom without limits, except for the freedom of the powerful people, who want to raze and trample the weak in the world," admonished President Hugo Chávez on Wednesday.

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When Hugo Chávez makes a personal appeal to Washington for help, as he did 11 days ago, it raises serious questions about the signals that President Barack Obama is sending to the hemisphere's most dangerous dictator.

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Venezuela is fast becoming a major hub for cocaine trafficking in the Western Hemisphere, according to a report written by the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress.

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The Obama White House has made a greater effort than any U.S. administration in history in extending the hand of friendship to unsavory regimes.

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So Chavez sees "good signals from US"? Really? Well I certainly do not see good signals from Chavez.

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A confession by security guard Víctor Escalona revealed that a personal struggle over money was the motive of the crime.

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Chávez said that the attack had "very strange" elements and reminded him of an attack a few years ago against the consulates of Colombia and Spain in Caracas, in which perpetrators tried to give the appearance of being Chávez supporters by leaving pro-Chávez fliers at the  …

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has condemned a attack on a Caracas synagogue, but Jewish human rights advocates say the left-wing government paved the way by fostering a climate of politically motivated anti-Jewish sentiment. The attack also comes amid an upsurge of anti-Se …

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As tension grows between Israel and Venezuela, both of the countries have shut down the other's embassies.

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"As Chávez completes a tumultuous decade in power, polls show that Venezuelans are most concerned about rampant crime in this oil-rich country.

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In an interview with Univision, Sarah Palin referred to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a "dictator" who cannot "mess with the United States whenever they feel like it." While an admirable sentiment, President Chavez' response was one that may bode ill for foreign relations  …

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A 10-foot Burmese Python killed a student zookeeper in Caracas on the weekend and was caught trying to swallow its dead human prey when horrified coworkers arrived, Venezuela's El Universal newspaper reported.

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President Hugo Chavez, the "socialist revolutionary" leading a global campaign against America's "empire", is facing a political crisis in Venezuela where crucial elections are approaching and old allies have turned against him.

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On April 25, twenty-one Latin America scholars released this letter (reprinted below) to the media with regard to the documents allegedly recovered from a laptop captured from Colombian guerrillas.

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The dapper octogenarian in a crisp blue suit, his face smoothed by plastic surgery, swanned from table to table in the candlelit banquet hall, bestowing kisses and collecting accolades.

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Until recently, the relationship between the revolutionary collectives of 23 de Enero and the Chávez government had been a friendly one.

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European envoys met over the weekend with members of the FARC rebel group's central leadership to discuss how to move ahead in the efforts to negotiate a humanitarian exchange aimed at securing the release of Ingrid Betancourt and the rest of the hostages held in the jungle by  …

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Although President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela continues to excite fits of hysteria north of the Rio Grande, Simon Romero of the New York Times (Feb. 9, 2008) wants us to know that Chávez is "increasingly on the defensive." ...

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Venezuela's top food company has accused troops of illegally seizing more than 500 tonnes of food from its trucks as part of President Hugo Chavez's campaign to stem shortages.

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"I had a business in Venezuela, I had shops in Caracas, everything was working perfectly," Mr. Dunaevschi, 39, said. "I left everything." He added, "I began here from zero."

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Caracas has been in a crazed consumer frenzy during the past 2 weeks. Finally, things are settling down since most people have left the City for vacation spots around the world and lots have gone to spend their holidays at the beach.

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Most of all, Chavez is so dangerous for Washington and right-wing comprador elites in Latin America because he is pushing, no holds barred, towards democratic socialism.

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This week we're starting out with streaming, but soon (i.e. "once we figure out how to do it") we'll be offering actual free MP3 downloads of music never before heard outside Venezuela. Let's kick it off with a fierce all-woman salsa band from the Caracas barrios.

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Voters rejected the contentious amendments, proposed to greatly expand his powers and turn the oil-rich country into a socialist state, by a narrow margin of 51 to 49 per cent.

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