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Doubts Emerge Within Venezuelan Opposition about Capriles as Candidate

Feb 21st 2013

Governor of Miranda Henrique Capriles (La Verdad)

Doubts have emerged in recent days about who will be the official candidate of the Venezuelan opposition if Hugo Chavez cannot continue as president and new presidential elections are called.

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Venezuelan Opposition Protesters “Manipulated by Foreign Interests”

Feb 20th 2013

Students with symbolic chains, and holding the Venezuelan flag as well as wearing the Venezuelan flag hat (previously worn by Ch

Twenty-five opposition students who had been protesting in front of the Cuban embassy ended their protest on Monday after President Hugo Chavez returned to the country from Havana.

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Return of Chavez Sparks Flurry of Criticism from Venezuela’s Opposition

Feb 20th 2013

Opposition leaders from the MUD coalition (Noticias 24)

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez’s sudden return to Venezuela on Monday was met with numerous criticisms and demands from leaders of the opposition parties.

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Venezuelan Government to Bring Charges against Opposition Politician Leopoldo Lopez

Feb 19th 2013

Opposition politician Leopoldo López (archive)

Venezuelan authorities announced on Saturday that they will reopen the case against opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez in which he is accused of diversion of public resources.

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Re-election of Correa a “Victory for Socialist Forces” Says Venezuelan Government

Feb 19th 2013

Rafael Correa won the presidential elections by 57% (AP)

Vice-president Nicolas Maduro congratulated Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa for his “gigantic” victory in Ecuador’s presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday.

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Chavez Returns to Venezuela

Feb 18th 2013

Supporters outside the Dr. Carlos Arvelo military hospital in Caracas, where Hugo Chavez will continue treatment after returning

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez returned to Venezuela in the early hours of this morning after over two months in Cuba recovering from cancer surgery.

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Venezuelan Government Increases Banking Sector’s Obligation to Fund Construction and Mortgages

Feb 15th 2013

The financial obligation applied to both state-owned and private banks (Minci)

The Venezuelan government has increased the banking sector’s financial obligation to fund construction and provide low interest mortgages as part of policies to broaden access to affordable housing.

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First Images Released of Venezuela’s Chavez since His Operation

Feb 15th 2013

The Venezuelan government has released the first photographs of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez since his cancer operation last 11 December.

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Venezuela to Advise West African Sahrawi Republic on Water Management

Feb 15th 2013

Venezuela will provide advice to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in the management of water resources in the context of integration policies, solidarity and complementarity, official sources said today.

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Venezuela Announces Measures to Soften Impact of Devaluation

Feb 14th 2013

Vice President Nicolás Maduro during the inauguration of a subsidized supermarket on Wednesday (Prensa Miraflores)

Venezuelan government officials announced new measures in recent days to combat price hikes and speculation as a result of the recent devaluation of the exchange rate.

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Venezuela’s Chavez Undergoing “Complex and Difficult” Treatments

Feb 14th 2013

Venezuela’s Vice President, Nicolás Maduro, announced yesterday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is undergoing “complex and difficult” treatments for his cancer.

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U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Venezuela’s Cavim Arms Company

Feb 13th 2013

The U.S. imposed sanctions on a state-owned Venezuelan weapons company after it traded with Iran, North Korea or Syria, the State Department said in a statement posted on its website.

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Venezuela Debates Currency Devaluation while Impact Remains Unclear

Feb 11th 2013

The government devalued the Bolivar by 32% last Friday (Ciudad CCS)

There has been much debate in Venezuela over the causes and likely consequences of last Friday’s currency devaluation, while the concrete political and economic impact remains to be seen.

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Venezuelan Government Rejects Report From Spanish Daily ABC

Feb 11th 2013

Venezuelan Communications Minister Ernesto Villegas (EFE)

Just weeks after Spanish newspaper El País published a fake photo of Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan authorities responded to another report, this time by Spanish daily ABC, which claims that the Venezuelan president would not recover.

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