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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]
19 Oct 2007, 11:13 am
DON'T BUY GAS FROM THIS ASS: An anti-Hugo Chavez billboard in Florida Alabama. [read post]
10 Sep 2009, 3:22 pm
Crowley on the announcement by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that he would recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia. [read post]
19 Oct 2007, 7:27 pm
SEEMS FITTING, somehow: "A glass monument to revolutionary icon Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was shot up and destroyed less than two weeks after it was unveiled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government. [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 5:16 am
Read More...Last Sunday, the New York Times profiled the beguiling relationship between Hugo Chavez and the South Bronx. [read post]
18 Sep 2011, 12:30 pm by Maureen Cosgrove
[JURIST] Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on Saturday criticized the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) [official website] for ruling in favor of presidential hopeful Leopoldo Lopez, thereby allowing him to run for office. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 6:57 pm
My reaction to the sight of President Obama shaking hands with Hugo Chavez was a little different from that of many on the Right. [read post]
15 Sep 2010, 7:19 pm by McNabb Ferrari, P.C.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that his country should ask the United States to extradite a man convicted in 2003 bombings who fled to Miami and is seeking asylum. [read post]
8 Aug 2010, 8:55 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller El Universal — along with other newspapers — is reporting that one of President Uribe’s final acts in office was to file a complaint with the ICC alleging that Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela, is responsible for permitting FARC guerrillas to use Venezuela as a staging area for crimes committed in Colombia: Jaime Granados, the lawyer of Colombian outgoing president Álvaro Uribe, on August 6 filed a complaint against Venezuelan… [read post]
11 Feb 2007, 2:12 pm
., The New York Times)--have characterized recent moves by Venezuelan President Chavez to rule by decree (for 18 months) as setting the country on the... [read post]
8 Dec 2007, 11:05 pm
Says Hugo Chavez, creating a new time zone for Venezuela, setting the clocks back half an hour. [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 6:29 am by Jason Poblete
 What do you expect when megalomaniac Hugo Chavez announces he will start a nuclear program with the help of Russia and Iran? [read post]
25 Jun 2009, 9:50 pm
Last Saturday, President Hugo Chavez (at right) announced that his government would "shake up" Venezuela's intellectual property laws, particularly with respect to patents on medicines. [read post]
6 Mar 2008, 9:41 am
At its core, the Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela crisis is more about politics than economics, but we may see a direct impact on trade and investment:Venezuela is starting to block billions of dollars in Colombian imports and investment under orders from President Hugo Chavez, threatening economic havoc in both nations in response to a Colombian military attack on rebels hiding in Ecuador. [read post]
29 Jun 2009, 8:01 pm by Kate Vandermade
The referendum would have changed the constitution to allow Zelaya an additional term as president — a move some have argued looks suspiciously close to the referendum Hugo Chavez proposed for Venezuela in 2007. [read post]
23 Jun 2009, 6:10 am
The AP on Hugo Chavez: Venezuelan officials plan to invalidate some pharmaceutical patents and allow domestic manufacturers to produce licensed medicines, an action that could cause shortages and scare off foreign investment, industry leaders said Sunday. [read post]
4 Mar 2008, 10:55 am
BOYCOTTS DON'T USUALLY ACCOMPLISH MUCH, but maybe Citgo is an exception: The Bush administration may be trying to ignore Hugo Chavez, but some local gas station owners are moving to protect themselves from the backlash against the Venezuelan president's anti-American rhetoric. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 2:45 pm by Adam Thierer
To be fair, I haven’t heard anyone from Free Press defending Hugo Chavez or his tactics. [read post]