Venezuelan lawmakers have granted President Hugo Chavez broad powers to rule by decree for 18 months.
Legislators in the outgoing National Assembly, which is dominated by Chavez allies, approved the president’s request Friday. The move gives the president the ability to use such powers for the fourth time since he took office 11 years ago.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is to temporarily govern from a Bedouin tent to allow victims of recent floods to take temporary shelter in his office.
More than 100,000 people have been made homeless and 30 killed by the worst rains to hit the South American state in over a decade. Landslides have swept away houses in slums built on hillsides in the capital, Caracas.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ordered his government to take over the U.S.-based bottle-glass-maker Owens-Illinois’ unit in the South American country. In a televised speech on October 25, Chavez criticized the company’s practices, saying it had been taking money from Venezuelans, destroying the environment and exploiting Venezuelan people.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in talks aimed at furthering ties between the two U.S. adversaries. Mr. Ahmadinejad welcomed the Venezuelan leader to the presidential palace Tuesday for his ninth visit. Iranian state-run media said the two leaders hope to “boost bilateral cooperation in the oil, gas and petrochemical sectors.”
Russia and Venezuela signed on Friday an agreement on the construction of a nuclear power station in the South American country The agreement, signed during Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s visit to Moscow, was reached in April 2010 during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Caracas.
Early indications are that the party of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has won a majority in the country’s parliamentary election. The opposition has reportedly got at least a third of seats in the 165-seat assembly.
President Hugo Chavez has ordered a review of Venezuela’s ties with the Vatican amid tensions between his government and the country’s bishops. An accord with the Vatican gave privileges to the Catholic Church not enjoyed by other churches, he said.
More than 27,000 people have become followers of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s Twitter account, which opened at midnight on Tuesday. The controversial Venezuelan leader created the Twitter account in an effort to combat the opposition’s use of social-networking sites.
Venezuela and Russia have reached an agreement to draft plans on the construction of the first nuclear power plant in the Latin American country. “We are ready to start drafting the first nuclear plant project,” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told a joint news conference in Caracas after talks with the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Friday personally delivered four Mi-17 helicopters to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, This is part of the growing energy and defense links between the two countries.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has asked for the cooperation of the national legislature in drafting laws permitting the elimination of capitalistic operating guidelines at public firms.
Chavez on his weekly radio and television show Sunday revealed the societal model he envisions, according to which public firms will not depend on their established production capacity or on [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wants to rename the world’s highest waterfall, the Angel Falls in the Venezuelan state of Bolivar, national media reported. “How could we accept this idea that the falls were discovered by a guy who came from the United States in a plane?” Hugo Chavez said on his radio and TV-show “Hello Mr. President.”
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have pledged to pool their efforts in the struggle against imperialism. Both leaders condemned U.S. imperialism, while Chavez said Israel was “a murderous arm of the Yankee empire.”
Actor Sean Penn has flown all the way to Cuba to interview controversial communist leader Fidel Castro for an article to be featured in Vanity Fair Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor has learned. The Oscar winner has been regulalry criticized for his support of the anti-U.S. revolutionary, his president brother Raul, and Venezuelan President [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says President Barack Obama doesn’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Chavez claims Obama did not make any notable accomplishments to merit winning the prize, saying that rather than promote peace the US president is continuing the warlike policies of his
Hugo Chavez dreams of forging a new world order
THE mountains and jungles of South America are not ideal terrain for tank warfare. So it is hard to envisage what role Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, has in mind for the dozens of Russian tanks on his latest military shopping list. The strategic purpose of a recent tour that took him to some of the world’s least salubrious regimes is, however, easier to discern. And it led America’s State Department to give warning on Monday September 14th of a “serious challenge to stability” in the region.
Venezuela’s increasingly autocratic leader returned on Friday from a trip that took him to Libya, Iran, Algeria, Syria, Turkmenistan, Belarus and Russia, though he also found time for a visit Spain and the Venice film festival. On his jaunt he was decorated by Libya’s leader, Muammar Qaddafi, and embraced by Aleksandr Lukashenko, president of Belarus. …
Venezuela has raised the stakes in South America, buying Russian tanks and missiles with money borrowed from Moscow. President Hugo Chavez announced the EUR 1.4bn deal on his weekly television show. He said he borrowed the money so Venezuela would not have to cut spending on social programs.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday his country recognizes Georgia’s two former breakaway republics as independent states. During talks with President Dmitry Medvedev in the Kremlin, Chavez said: “I want to take the opportunity to announce that Venezuela is joining those recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.”
Acclaimed director Oliver Stone is planning a big screen documentary based on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The three-time Oscar-winner is in talks with Iran to document the newly re-elected president, who is internationally criticized over Iran’’s nuclear weapons program and his attitude towards the West.
The disputed leader’s re-election earlier this year also drew protests from hundreds [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmedinejad as a part of his two-day visit to Tehran. Upon his arrival, he said there is no proof that Iran is building a nuclear bomb and he hopes to build a nuclear partnership with the Islamic republic.
