That was not just because RCTV is Venezuela's oldest television company and aired many of its favourite shows. It was also because the protesters judged, rightly, that in pulling the plug on RCTV, Hugo Chavez's leftist government has taken another big step away from democracy. After winning 63 per cent of the vote and another six-year term in a presidential election last December, Chavez announced that RCTV's broadcasting licence would not be renewed when it expired on May 27. The government's reasons are that the channel acted as an opposition mouthpiece, and that it backed a short-lived coup against Chavez in April 2002. His apologists around the world make the claim that, despite RCTV's closure, Venezuela's media remain free and plural. It is true that RCTV's news coverage was partis...
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela is preparing to launch its first satellite from China, a move that President Hugo Chavez says will boost his country's independence....
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...[2] La demanderesse, une citoyenne du Venezuela âgée de 38 ans, est arrivée au Canada le 29 mai...News & World Report et il a été déposé à l'audienc...
Venezuela has threatened to slash trade and nationalize Colombian-owned businesses. Venezuela and Ecuador have sent troops to their borders with Colombia. A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are evading the ban by printing playbills, encouraging customers to come in costume, and pronouncing them "actors. S. troop morale improved in Iraq last year, but soldiers fighting in Afghanistan suffered more depression as violence there worsened, an army mental health report says.
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SOARING high above northern Venezuela's verdant Mount Avila one day, President Hugo Chavez looked down from his helicopter and saw a city: a new, "socialist" metropolis that he would bulldoze out of the tropical forest and populate with the denizens of Caracas's overcrowded slums. It would be a beautiful place, with shopping malls, parks, schools and enough neat, four-storey apartment blocks to house 100,000 people. Chavez even dreamed up a name for this utopia, Caribia. He gave the order, and construction began. Crews broke ground just over a year ago, reports The Washington Post's Juan Forero. Architecturally and ecologically unsustainable, high modernist projects always collapse of their own weight sooner or later. As [James C. Scott] writes, "the history of Third World development i...
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the U.S. of violating Venezuela's airspace with an unmanned spy plane, and ordered his military to be on alert and shoot down any such aircraft in the future. A huge display of mourning for Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri could transform his funeral Monday into another display of power by the opposition, whose activists have for months defied a brutal crackdown, a mass trial and abuses in detention to denounce the country's hard-line clerical rulers. Opposition leaders called for people to turn out for a day of mourning. OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY, Kenya -- Four of 's last eight known northern white rhinos landed in Kenya and were transported to a game park, where officials hope the endangered mammals will reproduce...
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A litre of fuel will set you back just a nickel in oil-rich Venezuela, the lowest price in the world, according to current.com, a leading peer-to-peer news and information website.
VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez on Sunday stood on his presidential balcony and told an adoring, cheering crowd of thousands that he would run again as president in the next election in 2012. It was a scene reminiscent of the late Juan Peron in Argentina, of Fidel Castro in Cuba -- two other Latin American strongmen who, although from different eras, share a socialist, populist authoritarianism with Mr. Chavez -- and it proclaimed to a worried world that a new caudillo had been born. Mr. Chavez has built his popularity and Venezuela's prosperity on the country's booming oil wealth over the last 10 years. He has used it not just to buy support among the nation's poor, but also to confound those he perceives as enemies by playing with the output, export and pricing of Venezuela's oil.
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[Hugo Chavez] used the full machinery of government to push for a "yes" vote in the referendum, including blanketing the state TV and radio channels with "yes" ads. He had muzzled the main opposition television channel, RCTV, earlier this year by not renewing its operating license. Chavez turned up the volume in the final days of the campaign, attacking Colombian President Alvaro Uribe as a "lackey" of the United States, threatening to expel CNN reporters from Venezuela, demanding that King Juan Carlos of Spain apologize to him for a recent outburst in which the Spaniard told Chavez to "shut up" and threatening to expel two big Spanish banks from Venezuela. Chavez is the biggest talent in the history of Latin America," said [Jorge Quiroga]. "You have to give him credit. He never rests.
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