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Venezuela’s Chavez Undergoing Renewed Chemotherapy Treatments

Mar 3rd 2013

Venezuelan Vice President Nicolás Maduro (Prensa Miraflores)

Venezuelan Vice President Nicolás Maduro announced on Friday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has begun new rounds of chemotherapy treatments after an improvement in his overall condition after cancer surgery.

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Public Claim that Venezuela’s Chavez Has Died Rejected as “Attention Seeking”

Mar 1st 2013

Ex-Panamanian ambassador to the OAS, Guillermo Cochez (agencies)

A claim by the ex-Panamanian ambassador to the Organisation of American States (OAS) that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez died several days ago after being “brain dead since 30 December” has been dismissed as “attention-seeking” and “speculation” by supporters of the Venezuelan president. 

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Venezuelan Government Outlines Social and Economic Advances in Annual Report

Mar 1st 2013

Venezuelan vice-president Nicolas Maduro and ministers of the national executive outside the national assembly yesterday (Prensa

The Venezuelan government has highlighted social and economic gains made over the previous year in an annual report of government performance. 

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Venezuelan Government Extends Firearm Ban

Mar 1st 2013

Minister for justice and internal affairs, Nestor Reverol delivered the news during a speech at a school of the National Guard,

A suspension of the commercial sale of firearms will remain in place for another twelve months, according to the minister for justice and internal affairs, Nestor Reverol.

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ASA Summit Promotes South-South Ties, Regional Integration

Mar 1st 2013

Venezuelan foreign minister Elias Jaua speaking at the III Africa – South Americ

The signing of twenty-seven new economic and social agreements between the nations of South America and Africa was the product of three days of meetings held between representatives of more than 60 countries in Equatorial Guinea last week.

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Large Rally Remembers Venezuela's Caracazo, While Opposition Students Protest

Feb 27th 2013

Vice-president Nicolas Maduro speaking at the rally today (Prensa Miraflores)

Vice-president Nicolas Maduro spoke at a large and vibrant rally today in Caracas to mark the 24th anniversary of the Caracazo, while a small group of opposition students protested in another part of Caracas.

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Venezuela’s Social Missions Progressing

Feb 26th 2013

A Venezuelan woman receiving her old age pension for the first time (archive)

Despite some private international media reporting “economic chaos” and that social missions have ground to a halt with President Hugo Chavez still recovering from cancer surgery, the missions continue working.

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United Socialist Party of Venezuela Selects Candidates for Primary Elections

Feb 26th 2013

A PSUV candidate selection assembly (Luis Bobadilla/Ciudad CCS)

Thousands of United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) activists are participating in grassroots assemblies to select candidates for the party’s municipal primary elections, to be held on 9 April.

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Venezuela’s Opposition Launches New Offensive, Wikileaks Reveals Their Strategy

Feb 24th 2013

Opposition leaders hold fake packages of corn flour as part of a campaign stunt against food shortages

Leaders of Venezuela’s opposition parties announced on Saturday that they were launching a new offensive of protests and actions against the Chavez government, while earlier in the week Wikileaks published emails revealing their strategy.

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Application of Venezuela's Labor Law Advances

Feb 24th 2013

Labor Minister Maria Cristina Iglesias (Presidential Press)

Labor Minister Maria Cristina Iglesias announced this week that the Labor Ministry will be intensifying meetings with public sector and state-run companies in the upcoming weeks to ensure the correct application of the Labor Law for Workers.

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Venezuela’s Chavez to Africa – South America Summit: We Must Unite

Feb 22nd 2013

The letter was read out yesterday by Venezuelan foreign minister Elias Jaua to the sixty-three countries at the III Africa – S

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in an open letter has urged countries of the South American and African continents to unite into a “true pole of power”, while railing against recent Western interventions in Africa.

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Venezuela: Artists Form National Guitar Network

Feb 22nd 2013

Venezuelan musicians

Venezuelan musicians and and cultural authorities formed a national guitar network on Wednesday, aimed at promoting the instrument nationwide.

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Venezuela Launches Digital Television, Excludes Globovisión

Feb 22nd 2013

Vice President Nicolas Maduro and Technology Minister Jorge Arreaza inaugurated the new digital television system on Wednesday (

The Venezuelan government launched a digital television system on Wednesday that provides free digital broadcasting to nearly sixty percent of the country but excludes the opposition channel Globovisión.

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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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