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Venezuela Launches New Social Program for Poor Children
June 17, 2008 ... Farías explained. President Chávez also allocated 47 million bolivars (US$21.9 million) for the purchase of ... -
How the Guardian Misrepresents Venezuela
September 17, 2008 ... business sector lobby group. The coup lasted only 47 hours however. In one of the more remarkable stories of ... -
Sidor Contract Workers In Negotiations for Bonus, Following Brief Strike
November 5, 2008 ... was that the minister had been meeting into the late hours of the night with the presidents of Sidor to fine-tune ... in mid-October the contract workers went on strike for 90 hours and blocked traffic on the main road because Sanz had ... -
Chávez and Castro Discuss Food Crisis and Energy Strategy in Havana
June 18, 2008 ... morning. “With Fidel we conversed for almost three hours yesterday, and today almost two more hours, walking through the garden. Today we reviewed our ... -
A random, exciting, and worrying week
BlogSeptember 16, 2008 With the national youth conference, a planned coup revealed, students going back to uni yesterday, and the campaign to discuss the laws as well as for the elections heating up, it has been quite a week. Tuesday - My friend texted me... -
Conversations With Chávez and Castro
December 2, 2008 ... mixing with the wealthy opposition and spending days and hours at its president's side, I wondered, without wondering, ... Well, right and wrong, as you'll find out. Within two hours, we were taking off. When we landed at Caracas airport, ... the next two days in Chávez's constant company, with many hours of private meetings among the four of us. In the ... -
Venezuelan Government Seizes and Sells 10 Tons of Poultry in Falcón State
January 21, 2008 ... seven commercial establishments were closed for 48 hours and fined for selling powdered milk at exorbitant ... -
"This Year May Day is Very Special"
April 30, 2008 As May Day approaches once again, Federico Fuentes fromwww.greenleft.org.au interviews Stalin Pérez Borges (SPB), national coordinator of the National Union of Workers (UNT) and member of the editorial board of the newspaper Marea Socialista and Marcos Garcia (MG), national coordinator of the public sector federation, FENTRASEP and member also of Marea Socialista. -
Chavez warns that "Bolivia is on the verge of exploding"
April 23, 2008 ... and Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, will arrive in the next few hours. Translated from El Universal ... -
One person dead after explosion at Fedecamaras
February 24, 2008 ... on the corner of Pajaritos, which occurred in the early hours of February 18. They have also been affirmed ... -
Venezuela Information Office Factsheet on Interpol Report
May 30, 2008 ... to be answered, such: How it is possible that, within hours of the violation of Ecuadorian territory, the head of ... -
Venezuela’s Legislature Starts Debate on Constitutional Amendment
December 18, 2008 ... discussion today, expected to last between five and eight hours, will be presided over by AN President Cilia Flores and ... -
Venezuelan Newspaper Vice-President Murdered
June 3, 2008 ... over,” Soares told the press. At a quarter to 11pm, five hours after the crime occurred, CICPC’s investigation of ... -
Venezuela News Summary #62 - Post-Election Special
November 24, 2008 ... to be decided. At midnight Venezuelan time, about eight hours after the first polls closed, the president of ... Garcia from We Can, denounced the extension of voting hours and threatened not to recognize the results. By 9pm, ... -
Chavez Reiterates Call on Colombian Rebels to Release All Hostages
June 10, 2008 President Hugo Chávez called on the new leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to liberate all of the insurgent group’s hostages and advance toward a peaceful end to the Colombian conflict in coordination with other Latin American and European nations.