Tag: Venezuela

• Tuesday, April 5th 2011 - 10:15 UTC

  Venezuelan business community concerned about full Mercosur integration

  

  The potential full membership of Venezuela in Mercosur, before formalizing its departure from the Andean Community (CAN) has Venezuelan entrepreneurs and several parties linked to integration “awaiting and in uncertainty” since they are not in touch with government actions on the issue.

• Friday, April 1st 2011 - 01:54 UTC

  Mujica: we need Venezuela in Mercosur “to help balance the group”

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica promised his peer Hugo Chavez he would press strongly for Venezuela’s incorporation as full member of Mercosur because this will help balance the group.

• Thursday, March 31st 2011 - 14:00 UTC

  Chavez warns: if capitalism returns to Venezuela, it’s the end of oil cooperation

  

  President Hugo Chavez confirmed he would run for re-election in 2012 and made a strong call for regional unity warning that “if capitalism returns to Venezuela” it would mark the end of oil cooperation.

• Thursday, March 31st 2011 - 07:38 UTC

  Chavez blasts alliance bombing Libya; signs agreements with Uruguay

  

  Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday during a press conference in Montevideo that the Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi “is doing what has to be done, resisting an imperial aggression” and added that “it’s not anticipated that he has plans to leave Libya”.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2011 - 05:08 UTC

  Chavez praises Argentina’s role in UNASUR; signs ambitious trade accord

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez underlined the significance of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) during his one day visit to Buenos Aires. Chavez is on a tour of the region that also includes Uruguay, Bolivia and Colombia.

• Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 08:10 UTC

  AH1N1 swine flu cases climb to 202, report Venezuelan health officials

  

  Venezuelan health officials say the number of confirmed AH1N1 swine flu cases in the country has risen to more than 200 people. Health Minister Eugenia Sader says 23 new cases have been diagnosed, raising the nationwide total to 202.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 - 08:48 UTC

  “Not even dressed as Father Christmas” will Chavez make it to Mercosur

  

  “Not even dressed as Father Christmas can president Hugo Chavez make Venezuela become a member of Mercosur”, according to a 2009 Wikileaks cable quoting Paraguay’s Foreign Affairs minister Hector Lacognata during an informal talk with US ambassador in Asuncion Liliana Ayalde.

• Thursday, March 17th 2011 - 18:25 UTC

  Gustavo Coronel: The Four Hotbeds of Corruption in Venezuela

  

  Hugo Chavez became president of Venezuela in 1998 on the strength of his promises to stamp out corruption. Venezuela had been a democratic showcase for the hemisphere from 1958 to the early 1970’s but after receiving a huge oil income in the mid-1970 the quality of government deteriorated and waste and corruption set in. By 1998 most Venezuelans were deeply disappointed and wanted a radical change. They got it with Hugo Chavez. What they never imagined was that the change would be for the worse.

• Thursday, March 17th 2011 - 18:04 UTC

  China will finance and build 20.000 housing units in Venezuela

  

  Venezuela signed an agreement with Chinese companies Citic Group and Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. to negotiate a 4 billion US dollars loan to finance oil and construction projects, President Hugo Chavez said in Caracas.

• Friday, March 4th 2011 - 01:31 UTC

  Democracy in Latam, a success story ‘except for Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua’

  

  Latin America is enjoying growth and stable democracy with the “notable exceptions” of the leftist governments of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday.