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January 16, 2013 ... for seven minutes, where as last year Chavez talked for 9 hours and 47 minutes.  In the past the opposition has criticised ...

March 7, 2013 ... death of Hugo Chavez provoked HRW to immediately (within hours) smear  the Chavez government's legacy. "Chávez's ...

May 21, 2013 The International Crisis Group (ICG) sells itself as “working to prevent conflict worldwide” but there is one country where their mission looks more like promoting rather than preventing conflict.  Exhibit A is their report on Venezuela, released recently. 

December 7, 2013 ... wasteland of shelled out cities. During the ten or so hours of shooting/stabbing/nuking anything that moves (no ... African shanty town with a high powered machine gun a few hours later. I started slipping away from the series around ... gamers engaging in ridiculous fantasies after working hours isn't the problem; policy makers doing the same thing ...

October 5, 2013 ... 7: Is it “normal” for Venezuelans to spend four hours waiting in line to do their shopping? Short answer: As ... BBC Radio 4 viewers have been led to believe, waiting five hours in line at a supermarket is not “normal”. Lines at ... mostly consisting of once weekly shopping trips. Four hours isn't impossible, but anecdotal evidence from myself ...

June 5, 2013 ... had been tapped to take over as director. Within a few hours, Villegas responded by stating that he intended to take ...

December 15, 2013 ... held the White House with 51.1%, while Mitt Romney had 47.2%. Do those few percentage points of difference mean that ...

July 12, 2013 In the wake of President Nicolas Maduro's offer of asylum to Edward Snowden, there has been a renewed wave of criticism of the Venezuelan government. There has been some good commentary, and plenty of the usual misinformation.

May 26, 2013 ... palace. In fact, they had helped engineer the coup. In the hours leading up to the putsch, the TV stations ran constant ... of the march, they provided blanket nonstop coverage for hours, pre-empting regular programming. When shooting broke ...

February 22, 2013 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.

June 20, 2013 Venezuela’s national assembly is debating a reform to its breastfeeding law which could see baby food companies like Nestle fined in certain situations. The corporate media have reacted hysterically to the law, claiming that President Nicolas Maduro is “taking bottles from babies’ mouths”.

March 7, 2013 ... about the constitutional process of succession. Only hours after the country first learned of Chavez’s death ...

March 24, 2013 People don't know the unique role Chavez played in bringing about the unity and second independence of Latin America.

January 15, 2013 ... agents detained his wife and children for several hours and took two computers from his home”. This is true, ...

February 11, 2013 ... Asia, often children, have to work in sweatshops for 16 hours a day or more, with zero labor stability and absurdly ...