Officers of the Venezuelan National Anti-Drugs Office (ONA) arrested a prominent Colombian drug dealer, Nelson Orlando Buitrago Parada, aka "Caballo," on Saturday.
Member countries of Latin America’s alternative integration bloc, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), met in the Venezuelan capital this weekend in order to discuss the advancement of the organisation at its 11th official summit.
The new Venezuela social network, called Plaxed, which allows streams of short posts (200 characters), as well as event invitations, polls, and questions, was created as an alternative site so that files or personal details found on the network “aren’t blocked, erased, or followed” by U.S laws, said its creator, Cesar Cotiz, a systems engineer student.
Argentina and Venezuela announced the formation of a mixed company for the production of Venezuelan oil, as both governments highlighted the “increased density” of bilateral cooperation following the visit of Argentine planning and development minister Julio de Vido to Venezuela.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has criticised the U.S. State Department’s “absurd” decision to threaten Latin American countries with sanctions should they engage in trade with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has verified with extreme concern the increase in threats against Venezuelan consular personnel in Miami, Florida.
The CELAC triumvirate countries Chile, Cuba and Venezuela have decided this week that energy, science and technology, infrastructure, finance and social development will be the five key areas for building the new regional organisation, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared this week that Daniel Ortega’s re-election as Nicaraguan president is a “triumph” for ALBA (the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas), while announcing plans to develop the regional anti-neoliberal integration bloc in the coming year.
In a meeting between Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez yesterday in Caracas, both presidents emphasised that their relationship was about promoting peace and development, in light of U.S warnings against ties between the two countries.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has condemned the United States’ decision to expel the Venezuelan consul general in Miami as “arbitrary and unjustified” this past Monday, and derided the move as “another demonstration of the arrogance of ridiculous imperialism”.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to his weekly talk show programme last night, after his cancer diagnosis in June last year caused it to be cancelled for over seven months. On the show Chavez argued that the claim brought by Exxon against Venezuela's PDVSA was "about imperialism".
Venezuela and Peru entered a new period of closer bilateral cooperation with the signing of ten accords yesterday in the areas of social development, energy and commerce, and the announcement of the entrance of state owned Peruvian oil company PetroPerú as a partner in the exploitation of Venezuela’s oil.
The Venezuelan government has described its arbitration hearing at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) as a “successful defence” after it was told to pay just US$907 million to the Texas-based oil company Exxon in return for the nationalisation of one of its projects in Venezuela.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has expressed his “suspicions” over the number of left wing Latin American presidents who have acquired cancer recently.
CITGO President and CEO Alejandro Granado and Citizens Energy Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy II launched the seventh consecutive year of the CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program today in New Jersey.
