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June 3, 2006 Hugo Chavez has played a historically important leadership roll in OPEC since becoming president of Venezuela, and this week´s summit, which he launched on Thursday, was no exception.

July 21, 2006 Rejecting a report by the Inter-American Press Association that says there is little freedom of speech in Venezuela, Venezuelan government officials said the organization is biased because it represents media owners and not journalists.

August 14, 2006 Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez officially registered as a candidate on Saturday, just before addressing a large crowd outside the electoral council's offices, in order to launch his re-election campaign.

August 17, 2006 ... with my head head held high, how sad to leave in the early hours of the morning like rats,” said Chavez. However, ...

September 5, 2006 ... given any opportunity to present themselves. “It’s 24 hours per day against our candidate,” said Bravo. “The ...

September 28, 2006 Venezuela officially presented a letter of protest to the United States on Tuesday, against “the illegal detention of Foreign Minister Maduro in the New York Airport.” The US has apologized for the incident both publicly and in private.

October 28, 2006 President Hugo Chavez officially inaugurated the Venezuelan Agricultural Bank and the Oderí Cacao Processing Plant this week. Both are expected to benefit thousands of small agricultural producers

November 2, 2006 Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frias was greeted by thousands of supporters yesterday in the barrio of Petare in Caracas as he continued his campaign for re-election.

December 1, 2006 ... at polling stations they could expect a wait of 10-12 hours. The opposition at the time accused the government of ...

January 30, 2006 In both the problems and successes in the sixth World Social Forum Youth Camp, campers got a taste of the Venezuelan cultural and political reality.

January 31, 2006 ... People came anyway. Thousands of people. They queued for hours. Inside, the atmosphere was like the build up to a ... started, they were singing, chanting, and dancing for hours. The large group of Cubans did too. They looked like a ...

August 17, 2006 The small office of Venezuela's embassy in Syria was going to move to a larger space. But on the day scheduled for the move, the bombings began in neighboring Lebanon, and the new diplomatic headquarters of Venezuela in Syria had the dignity of opening its doors for the first time, as a shelter to give life to those who arrived, fleeing from Israel’s bombs.

November 29, 2006 ... its regular schedule.  Until then, it will be open four hours a day and will have a capacity of 6,000 passengers per ...

December 22, 2006 ... long-winded Chávez could be; he can and does speak for hours. After two hours, I heard him hit his stride. I was never bored. He wove ... prophecy to a national mantra. At the end of three hours, he pulled the threads taut and his words cohered into ...

June 19, 2006 ... is contagious. “We want to begin with emergency- 24 hours service, surgery, traumatology, general medicine and ... associated workers in the Cooperative Central work long hours.  Manuel Daza, one of the more dedicated organizers ... stated recently that he probably works “about 80 hours a week.” “I know it’s crazy, but it’s worth ...