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9 May 2017, 7:13 am by Charles Kotuby
Helmerich & Payne de Venezuela started drilling for the state-owned oil company decades ago, but in 2010, then-President Hugo Chavez issued a decree appropriating the subsidiary’s drilling rigs, which the state-owned oil company now uses. [read post]
2 May 2017, 11:51 am
But certainly, we're not going to just have our president meet with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez and, you know, the president of North Korea, Iran and Syria until we know better what the way forward would be.Obama got lots of criticism for what he said. [read post]
1 May 2017, 1:23 pm by Amy Howe
Helmerich & Payne de Venezuela started drilling for the state-owned oil company in the 1970s, but in 2010, then-President Hugo Chavez issued a decree appropriating the subsidiary’s drilling rigs, which the state-owned oil company now uses. [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 4:50 pm by Tom Smith
Here’s just a small sample: David Sirota in Salon proclaimed Venezuela’s “economic miracle” thanks to Hugo Chavez’s “full-throated advocacy of socialism” and “fundamental critique of neoliberal [i.e., free market] economics. [read post]
21 Apr 2017, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
Michael KlarmanFor the Symposium on Michael Klarman, The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution. [read post]
23 Mar 2017, 1:59 pm
It is my great pleasure to announce an upcoming conference: The Future of Sovereign Wealth Funds, sponsored by the Wake Forest Law Review 2017 as their Spring Symposium. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 7:07 pm by Tom Smith
Over the last two decades, the now-deceased Hugo Chavez and his handpicked successor, President Nicolas Maduro, have wreaked havoc in Venezuela. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Ever since the election results came in on November 8, the ritual on the center and left has been to say that we need to reach out to some of the non-majority of voters who voted for Trump, in order to reestablish credibility with the hurting people who, in their desperation, abandoned the Democratic Party to vote for a dangerous demagogue.Part of that conversation has involved gingerly stepping around the question of racism and other bigotries that might have been motivating some of Trump’s… [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 10:05 am by The Federalist Society
Employees of the Venezuelan corporation, along with the Venezuelan National Guard, blockaded the equipment yards, and then-President Hugo Chavez issued a Decree of Expropriation. [read post]
26 Nov 2016, 8:10 pm by Jon Katz
Neither lawyer overcame the countervailing fact that Castro allied himself with the brutal Soviet Union, made Cuba the staging ground for the 1962 missile crisis, embraced the likes of Venezuela’s professional human rights violator Hugo Chavez, and consistently and grossly violated human rights while in office. [read post]
27 Oct 2016, 11:10 am by Amy Howe
In June 2010, then-President Hugo Chavez issued a decree appropriating the drilling rigs, which the state-owned oil company now uses. [read post]
22 Mar 2016, 8:48 am by Tom Smith
Things turned ugly in Cuba when communism collapsed in Moscow, and only the intervention of Hugo Chavez in then-rich Venezuela turned things around. [read post]
2 Feb 2016, 5:00 am
Martinez claimed that he had worked as a police officer in a specialized police force in Venezuela which arrested President Hugo Chavez in 1992. [read post]
27 Jan 2016, 8:33 am by Andrea K. Schneider
  Everyone famous who has visited Cuba, comes to the Hotel and there are even pictures all around of the famous visitors (including a larger than life portrait of Hugo Chavez, not something that we are going to see here in the U.S.) [read post]
19 Dec 2015, 1:40 pm
  Under the leadership of Hugo Chavez, this move toward Cuban style European Marxist Leninist  political and economic organization appeared unstoppable. [read post]
7 Dec 2015, 9:39 am by Tom Smith
(CNN)Venezuela's opposition party has claimed the majority of seats in the National Assembly in elections held Sunday, the first major shift in power in the legislative branch since the late President Hugo Chavez took office in 1999. [read post]