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Farewell to the Deficit: Venezuela Closes the Year with a Surplus
November 3, 2004 ... that placed Pedro Carmona in the presidency for 48 hours) and the oil strike, the State’s accounts are ... relation, which reached 66% in 1990, dropped to 47% in 2003, to 40% in 2004 and we expect to reduce it to 30% ... -
CIA Knew of Plot Against Venezuela's Chavez
November 24, 2004 ... House briefing on April 17, 2002, just days after the 47-hour coup, a senior administration official who did not ... -
Professional Forecasters Failed Venezuela
February 20, 2004 ... 52% and the figure for the international reserves erred by 47%. There are interesting things in the study, such as a ... -
Chávez's Staying Power
October 4, 2004 ... at 2:45 a.m. on August 15. I spoke to her about four hours later while she was still waiting in a line that ... percent of the vote. Like Toro, many people had gotten up hours before dawn to make sure their votes would count. Some waited in line for eight or nine hours in the blazing Caracas sun. "We are defending our right ... -
If We Were Venezuelan, on August 15th, 2004, We Would Vote for Hugo Chavez
August 12, 2004 ... (Canada): Journalist 46. Saul Landau (USA): Filmmaker 47. Michael Lebowitz (Canada): Economist and Professor ... -
Caño Limón: From an Oil Field to a Border Military Base
November 16, 2004 ... same time, the state participation was also distributed: 47% for the regional government, 32% for the National Royalty ... -
15A – Testimonial from the Ground in Venezuela
August 20, 2004 ... Venezuelans of all classes and sectors rose in the wee hours of dawn to position themselves in line for the highly ... their collective future. I spent the early morning hours of 15A on line at a voting location in the very center ... coveted right to vote, many for the first time. I spent 3 hours monitoring and observing the voting process at this ... -
As Venezuela Tilts Left, a Rum Mogul Reaches Out to Poor
November 11, 2004 In the early hours of Aug. 16, President Hugo Chavez announced his ... decorated hacienda in the Aragua valley, about 47 miles west of Caracas. One program, named "Alcatraz" after ... -
Between Venezuela and Nothingland
August 28, 2004 ... enormous lines waiting until dawn, standing firm, for hours and hours, overflowed all the structures of the voting apparatus. ... the presidency, for a couple of days, in the fleeting hours of the coup d’ etat of April 2002. And when Chávez ... -
Venezuela’s TV Regulation in Four Periods
December 26, 2004 ... that suspended Venevision, RCTV, and Televen* for 24 hours each – a suspension that had to be complied with in ... called on two TV channels to each show during adult hours two homosexual films that they had scheduled for prime ... -
75,000 Venezuelan Peasants Win Land Titles
April 12, 2004 ... now undisputed owners of 39,000 hectares [1 hectare = 2.47 acres] of arable land. We have fenced it in. And we are on ... week at most Mercals, costs 2,000 bolivars per kilo ($0.47 per pound) compared to 3,600 ($0.85 per pound) at ... -
UK's Independent Newspaper Falsifies Venezuela Election Results
August 16, 2004 ... high, with millions of Venezuelans queuing from the early hours at polling stations all over the oil-rich country to ... results, hell, the polls are still open for four more hours! Third, let's have a source for these numbers, Hannah. ... -
A Brief Enumeration of Venezuelan Opposition Imbecilities
May 17, 2004 ... de Venezuela (PDVSA) [1] . It lost in a matter of hours and then left its elite troops—the top oil managerial ... for the army to choose between genocide and revolution. Hours afterwards, the Bolivarian General Jorge Luis García ... people stood in queues to wait for gas and gasoline, for hours and hours, unruffled, dauntless, serene. Nobody broke ... -
Leftist Electoral Victories in Latin America
November 5, 2004 ... and 38 percent for city councillors, far below the 45 and 47 percent it expected to take. "This triumph guarantees that ... -
Chavez Wins Big and the Opposition Refuses to Recognize the Obvious
August 17, 2004 ... world would ten million people stand in line for up to ten hours, in the blazing sun, to cast a simple ballot that ... would release their exit polls instead. So, when, three hours after most voting centers had closed, the CNE did ... delegations in the country. Finally, about ten hours after the electoral council had announced its first ...