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Chavez in France to Discuss Colombian Hostage Swap and Oil Deal
November 21, 2007 ... Forces of Colombia (FARC). The two leaders met for several hours on Tuesday during which Sarkozy expressed his support ... -
Venezuela Puts Relations with Colombia “In the Freezer”
November 26, 2007 ... of Colombian sovereignty. Uribe's announcement came only hours after U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield slammed the ... -
Latin America Has Moved On
March 21, 2007 ... reportedly share a passion for fishing and spent a few hours alone out on Vázquez' boat. What was discussed during those hours is pure speculation but a good guess would invariably ... -
Venezuelan Support for Uruguay Provokes Bush-Chavez Debate
April 25, 2007 ... workers say amounted to a total of 153,000 solidarity hours of work on the part of the 90 employees -the value of ... -
Battle for the Soul of Latin America
March 11, 2007 ... restored to the presidency by loyalist forces within 48 hours. Chávez has certainly committed diplomatic blunders - ... -
CIA Venezuela Destabilization Memo Surfaces
November 28, 2007 ... workers' workweek will be reduced from 40 to 36 hours a week (Monday to Friday noon) with no reduction in ... -
Chávez and Venezuela: Duty, not Charity, to Haiti
March 20, 2007 ... our visit. Given that much has happened in these last few hours, I would like to thank President Préval for the ... -
Venezuela’s Security Factors and Policy Goals
May 2, 2007 ... interests—symbolized by the formal takeover just hours ago of the last remaining example of foreign-control of ... -
Washington’s Quest for Allies in its Battle Against Chavez’s Influence in the Americas
May 31, 2007 ... in the minimum wage and plans to decrease the weekly work hours from its present 44 to 36 hours. In response, Wolfgang Kunath denounced the myopia of ... -
Venezuela's Foreign Minister on Democracy Now!
October 4, 2007 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez didn't come to the United Nations this week for the annual General Assembly meeting. Instead, Venezuela's foreign minister, Nicolás Maduro Moros, traveled to New York, where he addressed the body. In a U.S. national broadcast exclusive, Foreign Minister Maduro Moros joined Democracy Now to talk about Venezuela's ties with Iran, oil prices, biofuels and his message to the United Nations this year. -
“Crisis in the Americas” – A Page Out of Washington’s Propaganda Playbook on Venezuela
October 29, 2007 The American Security Council Foundation just released a "documentary" which paints Venezuela's democratically-elected President Hugo Chavez as a maniacal dictator attempting to take over the Western Hemisphere. The documentary may be new, but the spin is a page out of Washington's decades-old propaganda playbook. -
Congressman José Serrano's Speech on U.S. policy Towards Latin America
November 12, 2007 ... he came to visit the Bronx, he spoke to us for a couple of hours. He’s famous for speaking a couple of hours. He told us about all the things I have mentioned here. ... a horrible problem that we could be discussing here for hours. But my concern, and my reason for speaking on a ... -
Hugo Chavez to George W. Bush: Gringo Go Home
March 12, 2007 ... Latin America today said about seventy-two or forty-eight hours ago in one of his speeches, when he was announcing that ... -
Chávez in Haiti
April 11, 2007 President Chávez and the Haitian people hit it off so well for reasons of principle and of practice. Haitians consider Chávez a leader in the global fight against the global power inequalities that keep people in Haiti, Venezuela and the rest of Latin America poor, hungry and uneducated. They see him standing up to the most powerful leader in today's world- President Bush. -
The Bank of the South: An Alternative to IMF and World Bank Dominance
October 29, 2007 Hugo Chavez's vision is to liberate the region's countries from IMF, World Bank, and Inter-American Development Bank (IBD) control that condemn millions to poverty through their lending practices. Helped by windfall oil profits, his government is already doing it with an unprecedented commitment to provide financial aid and below-market priced oil to regional and other countries.