Tag: Caracas

• Thursday, February 10th 2011 - 00:50 UTC

  Venezuela’s homicide rate exposes vulnerable flank of President Chavez

  

  Venezuelan authorities say they recorded 48 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants last year, making it one of the most dangerous places in South America. Venezuela has a population of 28 million and a report for United Nations last year put the homicide rate for South America as a whole around 20 per 100.000 people.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2010 - 21:08 UTC

  Sunday’s results change Chavez prospects for the 2012 presidential election

  

  President Hugo Chavez Venezuelan United Socialist Party, PSUV finally obtained 98 seats in last Sunday’s legislative election while the opposition managed 65, according to the primary proclamations based on official data from the country’s different regions.

• Monday, May 24th 2010 - 03:42 UTC

  Come the rainy season Chavez announces beginning of end to black outs

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that the arrival of the rainy season will help eliminate power rationing on weekends and on weekdays at non-peak hours. Chavez made the announcement during a meeting of an electricity advisory group at the Miraflores presidential palace that was aired by state-run VTV television.

• Friday, May 14th 2010 - 01:46 UTC

  Outbreak of Tropical Parasite Disease Threatens Metropolitan Caracas

  

  Venezuelan Health and Social Protection Minister Luis Reyes confirmed 15 cases of Chagas disease in the capital Caracas, following an outbreak in the popular quarters of the city. However Minister Reyes flatly discarded the word “epidemics”.

• Wednesday, April 21st 2010 - 03:11 UTC

  Argentina and Venezuela announce a “new world order of relationships”

  

  Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Venezuela’s leader Hugo Chávez said “the new world requires a new logic to accept a new order of relationships” during a meeting held at the presidential palace of Miraflores in Caracas.