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Maduro admits to knowing “the IDs and all” of the 900.000 Chavistas who did not vote for him

Sat, 18 May 2013 06:57:00 GMT

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro admitted to knowing ‘with IDs and all’ who are the 900.000 Chavistas who crossed lines and did not vote for him in the 14 April election which anointed him as the successor of deceased Hugo Chavez.

In a continent of tweeting chiefs, should presidents message immediate reactions?

Wed, 01 May 2013 05:48:00 GMT

When a million angry Argentines flooded the streets earlier this month to protest her government, President Cristina Fernandez decided to post a message on Twitter, but then could not stop and kept twitting.

Maduro calls on Washington for dialogue, but based on ‘respect’ and ‘no threats’

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:18:00 GMT

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro named a new acting head of its US diplomatic mission in Washington and sent an offer of dialogue after attacking the United States for "interference" in a row over his election.

After the megalomaniac years of Chavez Venezuela is ready for a sober Maduro

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:06:00 GMT

By R. Viswanathan (*) - The election of Nicolas Maduro, the chosen heir of Chavez, in last Sunday’s election, is good news for the peaceful and orderly transition of Venezuela after the abnormal, autocratic and quixotic rule of Chavez in the last fourteen years. If Capriles had won, the change would have been abrupt and traumatic for the Chavistas who might not have given up power so easily without some messy fight.

Maradona joins the Venezuelan campaign in support of Chavism and Maduro

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:25:00 GMT

Venezuelan incumbent presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro’s closing campaign rally will have a special guest on Thursday with football legend Argentine Diego Maradona giving a celebrity boost to the colourful presidential elections that will test Hugo Chavez’s populist legacy.

Capriles says that with the devaluations Maduro is destroying the 14 years of Chavez achievement

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:36:00 GMT

Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles claimed that acting president Nicolas Maduro with his latest decision approving a new devaluation of the local currency Bolivar is destroying the country, and he is achieving it in the hundred days he has been running the government.

Venezuelan presidential candidate Capriles pledges “not another drop of oil to Cuba”

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:46:00 GMT

Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate on Monday vowed to end the OPEC nation's shipments of subsidized oil to the Castro brothers regime in Cuba, slamming acting President as a puppet of Havana.

Millions turned out in Caracas for the final farewell to Hugo Chavez

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 07:41:00 GMT

Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas on Friday to bid a final farewell to late president Hugo Chavez a month before elections to pick his successor.

"Absolute confidence” of the Cuban regime in Nicolas Maduro

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:12:00 GMT

President Raul Castro expressed "absolute confidence" in Hugo Chavez's successors, after returning from the populist leader's funeral in Caracas, the Cuban press reported Sunday.

Chavez, the best friend of the Cuban people in their history, says Fidel Castro

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:04:00 GMT

Cuba's Fidel Castro praised the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a champion of the poor and said Cubans had lost their best friend ever, in his first comments on the death last week of his socialist ally. Castro said the news, although not unexpected, had been a hard blow.