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    • Sunday, Aug 29, 2010
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      Greg Wilpert on relations between the two countries....
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    • Thursday, Aug 19, 2010
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      While President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and the new President of Colombia, Manuel Santos met in Santa Marta, Colombia last Tuesday and agreed to normalize relations after a fierce diplomatic fight, there are no indications that such détente is in...
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    • Thursday, Jul 29, 2010
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      In March I wrote about the Obama administration's contribution (March 18) to the election campaign under way in Venezuela, where voters will choose a new National Assembly in September. I predicted that certain things would happen before September...
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    • Wednesday, Jul 28, 2010
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      President Chavez ordered maximum alert on Venezuela’s border with Colombia after the Uribe administration made grave accusations against Venezuela claiming the Chavez government harbors terrorists and terrorist training camps.
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    • Wednesday, Jul 21, 2010
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      Venezuela’s principal union federation, the National Union of Workers (UNETE), recently circulated a document calling for broader nationalizations, a revolutionary labor law, and a radical shift toward a democratic, worker-led management model to ...
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    • Sunday, Jul 18, 2010
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      It's nice when you make a documentary about how the major media outlets misrepresent reality, and the media response to the film proves your point. In fact, the media's response to Oliver Stone's "South of the Border," which I wrote with Tariq Ali...
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    • Friday, Jul 16, 2010
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      US State Department documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) evidence more than $4 million USD in funding to journalists and private media in Venezuela during the last three years. This funding is part of the more than $4...
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    • Tuesday, Jul 06, 2010
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      The US government demanded that Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding extradite a drug dealer. When Venezuela made similar demands on Washington, for arguably the Hemisphere’s most notorious terrorist, the Justice Department brushed off the request.
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    • Thursday, Jul 01, 2010
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      It is truly amazing how a long-time Latin America correspondent who accuses Oliver Stone’s recently released documentary “South of the Border” of “mistakes, misstatements and missing details,” manages to get practically every single statement of h...
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    • Saturday, Jun 26, 2010
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      On April 13, 2002, an event occurred in Venezuela which was as world-historical for South America as the fall of the Berlin Wall was for Eastern Europe: a U.S.-backed coup against the democratically-elected government of Venezuela collapsed. The B...
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    • Thursday, Jun 24, 2010
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      The Venezuelan National Assembly passed a reform to the Land Law on Tuesday night which increases the ability of landless tenant farmers to obtain land and strengthens the state’s power to convert large, idle estates into food producers.
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    • Tuesday, Jun 22, 2010
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      A revealing report published in May 2010 by the FRIDE Institute, a Spanish think tank, prepared with funding from the World Movement for Democracy (a project of the National Endowment for Democracy “NED”), has disclosed that international agencies...
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    • Saturday, Jun 19, 2010
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      During the 40th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Tuesday, Venezuela reaffirmed its opposition to the re-entry of Honduras to the OAS as long as the regime led by Porfirio Lobo, which came to power through a military...
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    • Friday, Jun 18, 2010
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      An account of a project involving Venezuela and an outline of questions for President Hugo Chavez
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    • Thursday, Jun 17, 2010
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      University professors and experts in corrections and rehabilitation will offer educational programs for both the staff and prisoners in Venezuela’s jails as part of the latest step forward in the country’s four year-old prison humanization program.
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    • Tuesday, Jun 08, 2010
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      7,244 communal councils received information and training this week in how to adapt themselves to the Law of Communal Councils that was reformed in November last year, according to the Foundation for Development and Promotion of Communal Power (Fu...
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    • Sunday, May 23, 2010
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      In recent weeks, local and international media have attacked the left-wing Venezuelan government over alleged “economic woes”.
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    • Thursday, May 20, 2010
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      Venezuela’s large bureaucracy prevents people, collectively and individually, from controlling their lives and achieving what they are trying to achieve as movements or communities, by requiring exhausting amounts of documents and waiting, by not ...
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    • Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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      President Hugo Chavez swore in a range of directors of state owned companies that comprise the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana (CVG). The directors were chosen by workers’ working groups and ratified by the president. Chavez also announced a ran...
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    • Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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      In December of 2009, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) put out a 300-page report entitled “Democracy and Human Rights in Venezuela.” The report depicts human rights conditions in Venezuela as having deteriorated significantly s...
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    • Friday, May 07, 2010
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      With Venezuela's economy having contracted last year (as did the vast majority of economies in the Western Hemisphere), the economy suffering from electricity shortages, and the value of domestic currency having recently fallen sharply in the para...
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    • Wednesday, Apr 28, 2010
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      During the recently concluded five-month extraordinary congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Kiraz Janicke & Federico Fuentes had the opportunity to discuss President Hugo Chavez’s proposal to form a Fifth Socialist International, w...
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    • Thursday, Apr 22, 2010
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      Following nation-wide assemblies involving more than 10 000 electricity workers to collectively discuss solutions to the sector's problems, 600 delegates gathered in Caracas on April 8-9. The delegates presented Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wi...
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    • Saturday, Apr 17, 2010
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      Throughout Venezuela's record-breaking economic expansion, the government's opponents - which includes most of the international media as well as Washington - were "crying, waiting, hoping," as the rock and roll legend Buddy Holly once sang. The "...
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    • Thursday, Apr 15, 2010
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      As Venezuela heads toward its fifteenth internationally monitored election in ten years, the international media assault against the democratically-elected Chavez government is intensifying. On April 3rd, New York Times correspondent Simon Romero ...
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    • Monday, Apr 12, 2010
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      In just 47 hours, a coup d’etat ousted President Chavez and a countercoup returned him to power, in an extraordinary showing of the will and determination of a dignified people on a revolutionary path with no return. The mass media played a ma...
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    • Tuesday, Apr 06, 2010
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      Women’s participation has increased dramatically in Venezuelan sports during the past decade, as has Venezuela’s success in the international arena. The Bolivarian Revolution has treated sports as an important aspect of advancing human development.
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    • Saturday, Apr 03, 2010
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      20 years ago, when the Berlin Wall fell, there was no revolution foreseeable on the horizon. However, it didn't take long before a process began to emerge in Latin America with Hugo Chávez. We have gone on to form governments with anti-neolibera...
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    • Sunday, Mar 28, 2010
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      A Discussion with Federico Fuentes and Kiraz Janicke
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    • Thursday, Mar 25, 2010
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      The Venezuelan government has launched a number of initiatives in recent weeks aimed to tackle threats to the revolutionary process including from elements within the pro-Chavez camp that seek to undermine plans to deepen the revolution.
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