Tag: Venezuelan National Assembly

• Tuesday, September 28th 2010 - 21:08 UTC

  Sunday’s results change Chavez prospects for the 2012 presidential election

  

  President Hugo Chavez Venezuelan United Socialist Party, PSUV finally obtained 98 seats in last Sunday’s legislative election while the opposition managed 65, according to the primary proclamations based on official data from the country’s different regions.

• Wednesday, September 22nd 2010 - 04:10 UTC

  Venezuelan opposition calls on the electorate to vote “without fear” next Sunday

  

  The Venezuelan opposition has called the electorate to vote “without fear” on next Sunday's elections, where some 17.7 million voters are eligible to cast their ballots to renew the 165 seats in the National Assembly.

• Wednesday, April 21st 2010 - 03:11 UTC

  Argentina and Venezuela announce a “new world order of relationships”

  

  Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Venezuela’s leader Hugo Chávez said “the new world requires a new logic to accept a new order of relationships” during a meeting held at the presidential palace of Miraflores in Caracas.

• Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 16:35 UTC

  Chavez marks “true-independence” with impressive military and militias’ parade

  

  Venezuela kicked off celebrations marking 200 years of struggle for independence with an impressive several hour long military parade. Recently-acquired Chinese K-8 planes and Russian Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft swooped through the sky during a lavish military parade in Caracas, as soldiers from Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Libya, Nicaragua and Russia joined those on the ground.