Tag: Hugo Chávez

• Thursday, December 29th 2011 - 23:29 UTC

  Venezuela has highest murder rate of South America, worse than Colombia

  

  President Hugo Chavez Venezuela is on track to set a new record for murders and to remain South America's most violent country, according to data released by a crime watchdog. The Venezuela Violence Monitor (OVV) said this week that 19 336 people had been murdered in 2011, an average of 53 per day in a country of 29 million.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2011 - 05:49 UTC

  Chavez claims five Paraguayan lawmakers are impeding Venezuelan access to Mercosur

  

  President Hugo Chavez claimed that a small group of Paraguayan lawmakers, manipulated by a “powerful black hand”, are impeding the long-delayed access of Venezuela as full member of Mercosur.

• Wednesday, December 21st 2011 - 00:32 UTC

  Chavez tells Obama “leave us alone” and called him “clown” and an “embarrassment”

  

  President Hugo Chavez called on Barack Obama to stop meddling in Venezuelan affairs, “leave us alone” and described the US leader as a “clown” and an “embarrassment”. Chavez is currently in Montevideo for the Mercosur summit.

• Tuesday, December 20th 2011 - 21:48 UTC

  Venezuela’s full incorporation doesn’t have to be decided today, said Chavez

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez arrived in Uruguay on Friday to push for his country's incorporation into the Mercosur trade bloc, in his first official trip abroad since undergoing cancer surgery in June.

• Tuesday, December 20th 2011 - 07:12 UTC

  Chavez expected in Montevideo to announce Venezuela’s Mercosur full membership

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said he will travel on Tuesday to the Mercosur summit in Uruguay in his first official foreign trip since undergoing cancer surgery in June and a further sign he is feeling stronger.

• Tuesday, December 20th 2011 - 02:58 UTC

  Paraguayan Congress warns Lugo on Venezuela’s incorporation to Mercosur

  

  The president of the Paraguayan congress Senator Jorge Oviedo Matto said that Paraguay should withdraw from Mercosur if the block during its Tuesday summit in Montevideo agrees the incorporation of Venezuela “eluding the approval of the Legislative as indicates the Constitution and the Mercosur charter”.

• Tuesday, December 20th 2011 - 00:01 UTC

  Obama joins the Mercosur controversy over the incorporation of Venezuela

  

  President Barack Obama has accused the government of Venezuela of threatening “basic democratic values” ahead of elections next year. He added that close relations with Iran and Cuba did not serve the interests of the Venezuelan people.

• Saturday, December 17th 2011 - 04:00 UTC

  Venezuelan Supreme Court endorses land grabbing alleging the right to food

  

  In a controversial ruling Venezuela’s Supreme Court endorsed the non enforcement of Criminal Code sanctions against those occupying private landholdings and plots of land.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 16:41 UTC

  Chavez seeking re-election announces pension hikes and cash bonus for children

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has launched new social programs including hikes in pensions and a 100 dollars a month cash payment for needy children as he prepares for his re-election bid next year.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 04:14 UTC

  Latam “progressive” countries openly supported tyrants despised by ”Arab Spring”

  

  The so called ‘progressive’ Latin American governments not only did they not support the revolution wave later known as the “Arab Spring” but openly and repeatedly backed the regimes against which the peoples of those countries rebelled.