Tag: Venezuela

• 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.

• Friday, September 9th 2011 - 10:05 UTC

  Venezuela blasts US for drug-listing four close aides of President Chavez

  

  Venezuela strongly rejected on Thursday US sanctions against four close political allies of President Hugo Chavez as a “new action that is part of the permanent aggression Venezuela” by the United States.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 19:40 UTC

  Venezuela economy expands 2.5% in 2Q, down from 4.8% in first quarter

  

  Venezuela’s second quarter (2Q) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 2.5%, below the expectations of the Government and below the first quarter GDP’s 4.8% rate, probably indicating that the Government’s effort to prop the economy via fiscal spending is losing steam.

• Monday, August 29th 2011 - 02:51 UTC

  Third round of chemotherapy for Chavez, but this time in Venezuela

  

  President Hugo Chavez will undergo a third round of chemotherapy for cancer at home in Venezuela beginning Monday, he said, instead of travelling to Cuba where he had two previous rounds of treatment.

• Friday, August 26th 2011 - 03:26 UTC

  “Chavez’ Venezuela has no chance of joining Mercosur” says Paraguay Congress

  

  Paraguay’s vote in support of Venezuela’s full integration to Mercosur seems more distant than ever as was confirmed by the country’s Senate Foreign Relations committee to Brazilian ambassador Eduardo Dos Santos.