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Mexico, Jan 11 (RIA Novosti) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced plans for the deployment of new Russian-made tanks and combat helicopters on the border with Colombia.
Ties between Venezuela and Colombia deteriorated last August after Washington signed a deal with Bogota allowing US forces to run anti-drug operations from Colombian bases. Chavez has criticised the [...]
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Caracas, Jan 10 (IANS/EFE) Venezuelan civil servants will work five-hour days beginning Monday – from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. – to help save electricity because of the country’s serious energy deficit.
The measure was announced Friday night by President Hugo Chavez, and at first went unnoticed because at the same time he announced a major [...]
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Caracas, Jan 10 (IANS/EFE) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced a currency devaluation and the introduction of a two-tiered official exchange rate as his government aims to boost a sagging economy.
The official exchange rate of 2.15 bolivars to the dollar, in effect since 2005, will be replaced beginning Monday with a dual-rate regime.
Importers of essential [...]
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Caracas, Jan 9 (DPA) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said a US military aircraft had violated the country’s airspace for 15 minutes before being intercepted and driven out by two Venezuelan F-16s.
Chavez said the aircraft had flown from the Netherlands Antilles’ island of Curacao, and was escorted out of Venezuelan airspace, but later returned for 19 [...]
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Caracas, Jan 8 (IANS/EFE) Venezuela’s auto sector produced 111,554 vehicles last year, a decline of 17.39 percent from 2008, the industry association said.
The fall in output was especially pronounced last month, when production was down 23.66 percent from November and 19.73 percent from the levels of December 2008, the association said Thursday.
Shortly before Christmas, President [...]
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Caracas, Jan 6 (IANS/EFE) Hit by a severe power crisis, Venezuela has announced that it may shut down a few aluminium and steel plants as part of the country’s electricity conservation measures.
The government cannot rule out suspending operations at state-owned steel mills and aluminium plants as part of measures for energy conservation. ‘If the current [...]
Caracas, Dec 29 (IANS/EFE) The US is preparing to attack Venezuela using Colombian soldiers under the pretext of attacking guerrilla camps supposedly located on Venezuelan soil, President Hugo Chavez has said.
Chavez Monday said during a military ceremony that ‘the verbal war’ began several days ago when spokespersons of the Colombian government again accused Venezuela of [...]
Caracas, Dec 24 (IANS/EFE) Venezuela and China have signed several new accords, one of which calls for Caracas to sell 500,000 barrels of oil per day to the Asian country and another providing $1 billion in Chinese credit for Venezuelan mining projects.
The agreements were signed here at the end of a meeting of a high-level [...]
Caracas, Dec 21 (EFE) President Hugo Chavez has claimed that a US ‘aircraft without a crew’, coming from Colombia, entered Venezuela’s air space on espionage tasks and he ordered the security forces to ’shoot them down’.
‘A few days ago, at midnight, one of their aircraft without a crew penetrated up to the Fuerte Mara (in [...]
Havana, Dec 13 (RIA Novosti) Venezuela and Cuba have signed agreements on 285 joint projects totalling about $3.16 billion at the summit of a regional trade bloc in Havana.
Speaking after the signing of the documents, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that the countries began intensifying cooperation ‘in 2000 with 17 modest projects worth some $30 [...]
Caracas, Dec 4 (EFE) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced plans to nationalise two small banks recently shuttered for ‘irregularities’, saying their doors will definitely reopen ‘before Dec 24′.
Chavez Thursday said his government has opted to ‘move Banco Confederado and Banco Bolivar to the public financial system after they are rehabilitated and strengthened’, a process [...]
London, Nov. 29 (ANI): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has asked people to stop singing in shower to avoid frequent power cuts and water shortages.
But ten years after Chavez launched his socialist “revolution” funded by an 800-billion-dollars oil boom, the energy-rich state is [...]
Caracas, Nov 23 (EFE) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said the conciliatory discourse of his US counterpart, Barack Obama, has been just ‘a big story’ and that an ‘imperial counterattack’ is under way against Latin American development.
‘And Venezuela is the No.1 target on the imperial map on this continent’ because the country ‘is the epicentre… [...]
Caracas, Nov 9 (EFE) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called on citizens to prepare for war after Colombia rejected his appeal to remove the US military bases from its territory that Venezuela believe is a threat to the country.
‘Let them not make a mistake, because we are ready for anything,’ the Venezuelan leader said, rejecting [...]
El Tigre (Venezuela), Oct 31 (EFE) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed more than a dozen accords here, including a significant pact on a joint venture for a oil refinery.
The two leaders met Friday at a soy plantation in eastern Venezuela for their seventh quarterly review of [...]
Washington, October 30 (ANI): Sean Penn is drawing plans to film part of his next movie in Venezuela.
The actor met with the country’s President Hugo Chavez at the presidential palace in the capital Caracas and discussed his plans with the controversial leader.
“(He) told me was very interested in a film project… that would most likely [...]
London, Oct 26 (IANS) Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn has jetted to Cuba to interview Fidel Castro for an article.
Penn, who has come under fire for his support of the anti-US revolutionary and his President brother Raul, is claimed to have flown to the communist country to discuss how US President Barack Obama’s administration has affected [...]
Washington, Oct 26 (ANI): Sean Penn has flown all the way to Cuba to interview politician Fidel Castro for a magazine article, according to reports.
The Oscar winner has been criticised for his support of the anti-U.S. revolutionary and his president brother Raul.
And now, he is said to have jetted to the communist country to discuss [...]
Caracas (Venezuela), Oct.18 (ANI): Wealthy Venezuelans have often luxuriated in the vistas of the Caribbean from the terrace of the Caraballeda Golf Club, relaxing with a whisky before teeing off amid tropical palms, above a marina filled with gleaming yachts.
But this way of life is now under threat from their President Hugo Chavez, who [...]
Havana, Sep 24 (EFE) Cuban leader Fidel Castro has praised US President Barack Obama for taking a ‘courageous’ stand on climate change, but added it was not right that Obama tried to make people believe that humanity could survive under the laws of capitalism.
Castro wrote in a commentary, titled ‘El Obama serio’ (The Serious Obama) [...]
Caracas, Sep 17 (EFE) Chinese and Russian companies have agreed to invest a combined $36 billion in oil projects in the Orinoco Belt, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said.
The president said state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. will have a majority stake in the projects involving the Chinese and Russian firms.
The agreement with China ‘was signed [...]
Washington, September 8 (ANI): 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 [...]
Caracas (Venezuela), Aug.13 (ANI): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has already identified the United States as the “Yankee Devil”, but now he has turned his attention to a still more infuriating ‘Yankee’ target-golf.
According to The Independent, Chavez is trying to shut down some of his country’s best-known golf courses. He told a television program on [...]
