Tag: Hugo Chávez

• Monday, February 6th 2012 - 07:10 UTC

  Fidel Castro presents two-volume memoirs and cautions about limits to Socialism

  

  Former Cuban President Fidel Castro presented a two-volume memoir at a public ceremony in Havana, where he referred to the mistake of believing that with socialism all economic problems are solved, official media said Saturday.

• Monday, February 6th 2012 - 06:55 UTC

  Chavez lavish celebration of aborted coup with troops hailing the “Socialist fatherland’

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mounted a lavish celebration to mark the 20th anniversary of the failed coup that helped launch his political career, as opposition leaders slammed the event as a blemish on the country's democracy.

• Monday, February 6th 2012 - 06:51 UTC

  Chavez supports Russia/China veto on UN Syrian resolution as “very positive”

  

  While Western and Arab countries responded with outrage after Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez considered the veto as “very positive”.

• Friday, February 3rd 2012 - 23:13 UTC

  ALBA summit takes off celebrating a frustrated 1992 military coup by Chavez

  

  Cuban president Raul Castro arrived on Friday to Caracas for the XI summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of America, ALBA, and to participate in the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the frustrated military coup by then a young Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez, currently Venezuelan president.

• Monday, January 30th 2012 - 09:40 UTC

  Venezuela convenes an ALBA summit to propose creating an economic space

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called for a presidential summit of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of our America, ALBA, for next February 5 in Caracas when it is expected Chavez will insist in the creation of an economic block.

• Thursday, January 26th 2012 - 05:02 UTC

  As demands pile up, Venezuela requests to leave World Bank arbitration court

  

  Venezuela’s government officially requested this week to leave the World Bank’s arbitration court as demands pile up from abroad for compensation following a decade of nationalizations under President Hugo Chavez.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 04:30 UTC

  Chavez is also father of an embarrassing teen-ager who angers Venezuelans

  

  President Hugo Chávez 14-year-old daughter, Rosines angered Venezuelans and embarrassed her father by posting a picture of her holding a handful of US dollars on the web.

• Monday, January 23rd 2012 - 04:27 UTC

  Chavez announces purchase of Brazilian aircraft for Venezuela’s state airline

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that his government plans to buy new Embraer jets from Brazil as well as used Airbus jets to expand his country's state airline Conviasa.

• Thursday, January 19th 2012 - 06:03 UTC

  “To all effects” Venezuela is fully integrated to Mercosur, says Uruguay

  

  “In practical terms Venezuela if fully integrated to Mercosur” said Uruguayan Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro during a meeting this week with foreign correspondents.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2012 - 05:19 UTC

  Chavez and Putin agree to defend independence and sovereignty of Syria and Iran

  

  The sovereignty of Syria and Iran should be defended against 'foreign interferences' and from the siege of ‘colonial powers’ Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin agreed during a telephone conversation, according to the Venezuelan Foreign Affairs ministry.