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Chavez reveals Venezuela has built first drone
CARACAS — President Hugo Chavez has revealed that Venezuela has made its first drone in partnership with Iran, Russia and China, and said Caracas plans to start exporting it soon. “It is one of the three planes that we have manufactured here, and we are continuing to make them… not…
Bolivia’s president talks of nationalizing all natural resources
TIQUIPAYA, Bolivia — Bolivia’s leftist President Evo Morales, who has nationalized some utility companies, raised the possibility Sunday of making all natural resource-related industries property of the state. “Another policy ought to be how we recover, or nationalize, all natural resources, so they are in the people’s hands under state…
Hugo Chavez reelection bid in doubt
President Hugo Chavez’s repeated trips to Cuba for cancer treatment and the government’s silence about his health are fueling rumors that he will name a successor to run in October presidential elections. So far, the government has fiercely maintained that there is no alternative to Chavez, who still leads in the polls. But several names…
Venezuela rejects World Bank arbitration in dispute with ExxonMobil
CARACAS — Venezuela will not recognize any decisions by the World Bank’s arbitration forum, President Hugo Chavez said Sunday, digging his heels in over a multibillion-dollar dispute with ExxonMobil. “We have to get out of the ICSID,” Chavez said, referring to the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes. “We…
Venezuela rescues kidnapped baseball star Ramos
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan security forces rescued kidnapped Major League Baseball player Wilson Ramos on Friday, two days after he was abducted in a case that underlined the country’s dire security problems. The 24-year-old catcher for the Washington Nationals was abducted by armed men on Wednesday evening while he chatted…
Kirchner celebrates re-election landslide in Argentina
President Cristina Kirchner celebrated a landslide re-election victory in Argentine elections, giving an emotional speech a year after the death of her husband and political partner. “I’m the first woman to be re-elected president. I don’t want anything more,” the center-left politician said to a rowdy crowd in a Buenos…
Fox News promotes Nazis who claim to support ‘Occupy Wall St.’
Conservative media have jumped over the story of the American Nazi Party supporting Occupy Wall Street. It all started last week, when the party’s chairman Rocky Suhayda praised the protests, saying, “My heart is right there with these people.” Seeing that as an opportunity to paint the movement as somehow…
Venezuela’s Chavez denies health problems
President Hugo Chavez appeared before journalists to deny reports his health had taken a turn for the worse, saying he was “doing well” as he recovers from cancer treatment. The Venezuelan president showed up at the Miraflores presidential palace wearing a baseball cap and glove, tossing a ball as he commented about his health…
Chavez in hospital for emergency care: report
MIAMI — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has been fighting cancer, was rushed to a military hospital for emergency care following kidney failure, according to El Nuevo Herald newspaper. The leftist, staunchly anti-US stalwart Chavez went into the Military Hospital in Caracas on Tuesday morning, the report on the newspaper’s…
Venezuela’s Chavez turns to shamans to fight cancer
Shamans from tribes in Venezuela’s Amazon jungle held a ceremony at the Miraflores presidential palace Saturday to help Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recover from his cancer treatment. Chavez, who insists that he was “not sick but recovering” from cancer, greeted the shamans wearing a track suit in the colors of…
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