Tag: Hugo Chávez

• Monday, October 17th 2011 - 06:51 UTC

  Venezuela’s Chavez returns to Cuba for ‘fourth and final’ cancer treatment

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to Cuba on Sunday to undergo a series of medical tests to evaluate his cancer treatment. Chavez, who finished what he described as his fourth and final round of chemotherapy in Cuba last month, said he will be undergoing what he described as “rigorous examinations”.

• Monday, October 10th 2011 - 08:06 UTC

  Brazil, in friendly tone, asks Venezuela for fair Judges and freedom of expression

  

  Brazil questioned the Venezuelan government guarantees for freedom of expression and Judiciary branch independence although at the same time saying it was a “good friend” of the government of President Hugo Chavez.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 16:52 UTC

  Chavez will seize summer homes on the Caribbean to promote state-run tourism

  

  President Hugo Chavez said his government would seize private homes on the idyllic Los Roques archipelago in the Caribbean and use them for state-run tourism in the latest move to implant socialism across Venezuela.

• Wednesday, October 5th 2011 - 09:08 UTC

  Chavez says he’s fine but photos and television give a different picture

  

  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez seems to be fully active recovering the initiative impetus of his pre-chemotherapy treatment. On Monday he was on national television in a meeting with a business delegation from Byelorussia. Last Saturday he was seen giving away home appliances and in the evening chairing a cabinet meeting.

• Monday, October 3rd 2011 - 21:13 UTC

  “Chavez preaches Socialism but spends like a rich capitalist”, Venezuela Transparency

  

  One morning October last year two agents from the Venezuelan presidency cabinet left on a special mission from the Miraflores Palace (seat of the Executive). They headed a few blocks away to the Central Bank to pick up five million dollars cash, expenses-money for the coming international tour of President Chavez to Moscow, Kiev, Teheran, Damascus and Tripoli.

• Friday, September 30th 2011 - 06:17 UTC

  Chavez tossing a softball ridiculed Miami rumors his health had turned for worse

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday that his latest medical checks have been stellar and ridiculed rumors that his health might have taken a turn for the worse. The press conference took place at the presidential palace.

• Monday, September 26th 2011 - 18:53 UTC

  Venezuelan opposition requests Unasur observers for elections and primaries

  

  Venezuela’s Democratic Unit Panel, MUD, which brings together most opposition forces, has requested Unasur observers for the 2012 presidential election and for the different parties’ primaries.

• Monday, September 26th 2011 - 04:37 UTC

  Chavez says he’s fine but admits feeling “a little diminished’ and short in red cells

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that he is recovering “favourably” from the “impacts” of his fourth and latest round of chemotherapy, although he admitted that he feels that his physical strength is “a little diminished”.

• Thursday, September 15th 2011 - 21:13 UTC

  Chavez to undergo new chemotherapy, but promises he will never shut-up

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said this week that he will probably have to undergo a fourth cycle of chemotherapy for cancer, but insisted that he will campaign for re-election next year “with the energy that circumstances require”.

• Wednesday, September 14th 2011 - 06:11 UTC

  Venezuelan presidential election moved forward to 7 October 2012

  

  Venezuela's elections board announced the 2012 presidential vote for October 7, moving the contest up from its traditional December time frame, which some critics say gives President Hugo Chavez an edge by shortening the campaign of potential challengers.