Sep 18 2010
President Hugo Chavez on Friday branded as “imperial vulgarity” a U.S. government report that faults Venezuela for not fulfilling its commitments against drug trafficking. “In a strange way, in an untimely way, the government of (Barack) Obama”...
Sep 10 2010
An engineer working for state-owned utility Corpoelec was arrested for trying to “instigate” the assassination of President Hugo Chavez by means of messages and photos posted on Twitter, Venezuelan police said Thursday. Jesus Enrique Majano...
Aug 17 2010
Venezuela’s Communist Party urged the government on Monday to seek the repatriation of convicted terrorist “Carlos the Jackal,” who is serving a life sentence in France for murder. Party representative Pedro Eusse said President Hugo...
Jun 29 2010
Rory Carroll reports from Venezuela where, in an effort to sustain food production based on government-subsidised stores and restaurants, Hugo Chávez is criminalising shopkeepers who want to set their own prices
Jun 16 2010
The majority owner of Venezuela’s only opposition-aligned TV station has left the country to avoid an arrest warrant as multiple cases brought by authorities leave Globovision facing an uncertain future. Associates of Guillermo Zuloaga confirmed...
Jun 5 2010
Ghanaians have a reason to proclaim war against any government in power who misuse our funds or does not develop the country during their years in power to favour the people of Ghana. ?I have been following closely on the discovery of Ghana’s new...
Mar 10 2010
Two members of the production team for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s weekly show were killed and three others injured over the weekend in a traffic accident, officials said. An assistant cameraman and a photographer died Sunday while returning...
Mar 4 2010
President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday that if Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero wants explanations of charges that Venezuela collaborated with a terror plot he should ask Spain’s foreign minister, who has already discussed the...
Jan 9 2010
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has announced that the national currency, the bolivar, will be devalued for the first time since 2005 by at least 17%.
Nov 28 2009
The Brazilian minister of Foreign Affairs, Celso Amorim, reaffirmed on Thursday divergences with the United States regarding the political crisis in Honduras before the opening of the Amazon basin countries and France Summit on climate change in Manaus,...