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3 Mar, 2007 2:34 pm
... States is more focused on political gains-the use of ethanol markets to weaken the governments of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela(a more traditional Latin American objective). It should come as no ... 20 millones de hectáreas, algo de eso (Risas), pero recuérdamelo.
Hugo Chávez.- Veinte millones. No, tú eres el que tiene ... 27th, 2007, "Year 49 of the Revolution". The trade off is obvious for Castro and
Chavez: the more land is devoted to the production of renewable energy sources, the less land available ...
12 Oct 10:55 am
... gradually expanding to encompass other topics where reality is so bizarre as to render satire both futile and indistinguishable. Case in point: Hugo Chavez. Chavez is already a vocal booster of a proposed law to ban
violent video games and "bellicose" toys in Venezuela. Naturally Chavez - who is something of a subject matter expert on bellicosity - has
arranged for the consumer protection agency he controls to determine what games and toys are ...
15 Feb 7:12 am
Hugo Chavez goes to the polls in his second bid to amend the Venezuelan Constitution to eliminate
presidential term limits. Should he lose, he has vowed to leave office when his current term ends in 2012; ... . Some human rights groups and the United Nations condemned that proposal,
mainly for the low bar to invoking a state of emergency. This time Chavez has been careful to restrict the amendment to the abolition of term
limits, and the international community has been quiet. Polls suggest that he ...
4 Sep 8:13 pm
CRITICS MARCH AGAINST HUGO CHAVEZ ACROSS LATIN AMERICA: "Thousands of opponents of Hugo Chavez marched against the Venezuelan president across Latin America on Friday, accusing him of everything from
authoritarianism to international meddling. The protests, coordinated through Twitter and Facebook, drew more than 5,000 people in Bogota, and thousands more in the capitals of
Venezuela and Honduras. Smaller ...
20 Nov, 2007 2:05 am
Hugo Chavez is consolidating his thuggish dictatorship in Venezuela. There will soon be a
"referendum" - conducted at gunpoint - on a new Constitution that will make Chavez President-for-Life. Ed Morrissey ("Captain Ed") rightly
asks, "Where's the outcry?" What will this referendum do that hasn't already been done by Chavez and his handpicked parliament? After all, he
already has the right to rule by decree. Chavez has wrested control of the main ...
2 Dec, 2006 10:08 pm
It doesn't surprise me that Hugo Chavez won by a big margin in Venezuela. With 78 percent of voting
stations reporting, Chavez had 61 percent to 38 percent for challenger Rosales, said Tibisay Lucena, head of the country's elections council.
Chavez had nearly 6 million votes versus 3.7 million for Rosales, according ... tally. Turnout among the 15.9 million eligible voters was 62
percent, according to an official bulletin of results, making Chavez's lead insurmountable. Here's more on ...
24 May, 2008 3:32 pm
... Barack Obama said (and here Jeralyn on the same speech): [D]emagogues like Hugo Chavez have
stepped into this vacuum [of a failed US Latin America policy.] His ... false promise as the tried and failed ideologies of the past. I agree with Obama's assessment of Chavez. One of Obama's big blog supporters and a good friend of mine, ... Al does not mention that in his review of Obama's speech. I had a debate with Al
about Chavez in ancient blogging history at Daily Kos, where his admiration and support of ...
12 Mar, 2007 12:01 pm
ZNet yesterday carried a long article on clashes between Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and the
country's Catholic Church. Tensions started in 1999 when Chavez's government decided to cut subsidies to the church by up to 80%. Other
political differences then emerged. Through meetings since 2005 with Pope Benedict XVI, Chavez has attempted to improve relationships.
Meanwhile Protestants have become key political supporters of Chavez.
9 Dec, 2007 7:24 pm
Last week I had some nice words for Hugo Chavez, because he had recogized that he had lost his
constitutional referendum and yet respected the outcome. According to Jorge Castañeda's Newsweek essay, however, Chavez didn't exactly make
this decision on...
19 Jul 7:11 pm
WALL STREET JOURNAL: The U.S. Steers Left on Honduras: Why would Hugo Chavez expect Obama to help
him? "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."
24 Aug, 2007 7:48 am
Starting in September, Hugo Chavez is going to be shifting Venezuela's clocks forward by a half-hour
(to ensure "a more fair distribution of the sunrise" according to Reuters). An hour I can understand -- but a half-hour? How long is...
18 Nov, 2007 3:30 pm
Maria Burns Ortiz has a story at ESPN.com that indicates Hugo Chavez's nationalization policies are
starting to foreign direct investment -- in baseball: With that kind of talent emerging from Venezuela in recent seasons, one would assume that big league...
21 Nov, 2007 8:09 am
A post on AzCentral on patent reform is more notable for the first comment than for the rather poorly written content of the post itself. The comment --> What happened to my previous
comment. You know, the one that exposed the fact that you guys are six months behind on this issue? Is Hugo Chavez running azcentral now?
3 Dec, 2007 9:07 am
Your humble blogger has had great fun at Hugo Chavez's expense for quite some time. So in the
aftermath of his first electoral defeat in a long while, it's worth concurring with something that Time's Time Padgett points out: [J]ust...
5 Jan, 2008 10:20 pm
This Examiner.com article picks up on something that this previous post noted over a year ago -- the economic absurdity of Joe "Che" Kennedy's deal with Venezuelan strongman
Hugo Chavez under which Kennedy's non-profit Citizens Oil Corp buys discounted oil from Venequela to
provide low-income American customers with a 40 percent discount on a one-time delivery of up to 200 gallons of heating oil. Kennedy ...
24 Sep, 2008 7:09 pm
Hugo Chavez sends President Bush congratulations on the bailout plan:...
8 Dec, 2008 6:51 pm
GAS PAINS for Hugo Chavez.
11 Dec, 2008 9:24 pm
HUGO CHAVEZ'S oil price problems.
24 Dec, 2008 1:03 pm
THUD: Venezuelan Crude drops to $27.10 / barrel. Plus, a look at Hugo Chavez's revenue problems.
31 Dec, 2008 8:00 am
IN THE MAIL: From Doug Schoen and Michael Rowan, The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War
Against America.
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