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Venezuela's Way Ahead
January 8, 2008 ... officers, Venezuelan professors can retire at the age of 47 and receive generous pensions for the rest of their lives. ... academic career - which should not end at the age of 47 - is the key to making Venezuelan science more productive. ... -
$300 Million from Venezuela to Colombian Rebels a Fake
March 8, 2008 ... sanctuary to the FARC . Indeed, Ecuador has routed out 47 FARC bases, a better track record than Colombia’s own, ... -
Embedded with the “Tupamaros”
April 23, 2008 ... It looks like an earth-bound supernova. For more than two hours we wind through these streets, fumes from the ... financial difficulties, however, the station broadcasts 24 hours a day, an incredible feat that collective members ... collective, La Piedrita. It is Jesus holding an AK-47, above an inscription that reads, “Christ supports armed ... -
Concern Over Venezuela's Russian Arms Purchases Could Be Misplaced
October 31, 2008 Venezuela's strengthening military and diplomatic ties with Russia have led to alarmist headlines announcing the return of a Cold War standoff, and raising questions about the impact of Hugo Chávez's arms shopping spree on the regional balance of power. -
Gap Between Latin America and Washington Still Growing
June 13, 2008 ... uttered by Chávez about the FARC (out of thousands of hours of his speeches) to describe Chávez as a "staunch FARC ... -
New Mission, Laws to Extend Popular Power in Venezuela
September 8, 2008 ... the country, the mission has begun with pilot projects in 47 sectors across eight of the country's 24 states, with more ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"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. -
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 ... -
Latin America Experts Condemn U.S. Detention and Search of Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba
July 10, 2008 ... agents detained Senator Cordoba for approximately three hours and searched her belongings. During this time, the ... without charges and interrogated for approximately three hours at J.F.K. Airport in New York. Senator Córdoba has ... -
War vs Peace: Colombia, Venezuela and the FARC Hostage Saga
February 8, 2008 ... conflict, in the first place to negotiate an exchange of 47 FARC-held prisoners for 500 FARC fighters in currently in ... -
Venezuela's 2008 Regional Elections
November 26, 2008 ... oversight by posting official results online less than 24 hours after the polls closed. U.S. media coverage - including ... of the voting available online through its website just hours after all of the 11,297 polling stations closed. This ... -
US-Backed Right-Wing Launches Violent Assault on Chavistas, Venezuelan Revolutionary Gains
December 1, 2008 ... of the governorship of Miranda arrived in the early hours of the morning in Baruta, to an Integral Diagnostic ... government. However, the coup was defeated within 48 hours by a mass uprising of workers and the poor, together ... -
The Coddled "Terrorists" of South Florida
January 19, 2008 ... Osiel Gonzalez squints down the worn barrel of an AK-47 rifle and squeezes the trigger. With a crack and kick the ... Miami area residents after they clambered ashore with AK-47 assault rifles, an M-3 carbine fitted with a silencer and ...