VHeadline editor & publisher Roy S. Carson writes: Just returned from a flying visit with President Hugo Chavez Frias to Russia, Belaros, Portugal and Spain, Venezuela’s Foreign Minister (MRE) Nicolas Maduro is complaining bitterly in his country’s pro-government media that ‘El Comandante’ was “the target of media lies” throughout the European tour. He opines that [...]
Taking Stock of the Bolivarian Revolution: Changing Venezuela by Taking Power
Gregory Wilpert has pulled off a triumph on two fronts with his new book on the Bolivarian Revolution, Changing Venezuela by Taking Power (Verso, 2007). Most obviously, Wilpert’s book — in both its scope and (sometimes almost maddening) objectivity — is the most detailed and credible analysis yet published of the Venezuelan revolution, which itself [...]
Latin America’s struggle for integration and independence
Commenting on how much the two had in common — same age, three children, similar music tastes — Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said to Mexican President Felipe Calderon on April 11 that “perhaps we represent the new generation of leaders in Latin America”.
He added, however, that one difference still remained: Calderon had still not become [...]
Tensions and uncertainties continue to rise as what some are calling a bout of “referendumitis” sweeps through Bolivia.
On July 23 — one day after the right-wing opposition to Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, demanded a referendum on the controversial issue of the nation’s capital — the sole magistrate remaining on the Constitutional Tribunal called into question the constitutionality of the recall referendums set for August 10 that will determine the fate [...]
Tensions and uncertainties continue to rise as what some are calling a bout of “referendumitis” sweeps through Bolivia.
On July 23 — one day after the right-wing opposition to Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, demanded a referendum on the controversial issue of the nation’s capital — the sole magistrate remaining on the Constitutional Tribunal called into question the constitutionality of the recall referendums set for August 10 that will determine the fate [...]
Chávez, It is essential to strengthen our defense to preserve the peace
’We want peace, but in order to preserve the safety and the calm of the nation, it is essential to strengthen our defense,’ stated the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, at his arrival to Moscow on Tuesday (22) morning.
At the airport of the Russian capital city, Venezuela’s President stated that [...]
Media insist on distorting efforts made by Bolivarian Government
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, reiterated this Friday that some mass media insist on distorting the efforts made and achievements reached by the Bolivarian Government.
The statements were made from Moscow regarding two news that were published by the news agency Interfax about an alleged agreement signed by the Venezuelan [...]
Venezuela and Russia interested on developing aeronautics and railway industries
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, stated that his Government wants to ally with Russia to develop the aeronautics and railway industries.
The statements were made this Friday from Moscow just before lifting off to Belarus. Chávez informed that he held a meeting with representatives of the state-run civil aviation company [...]
Russia and Venezuela keep a perfect identity in their foreign policy
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, emphasized that Venezuela and Russia have a perfect identity in their foreign policy, which has allowed them to reach higher levels in their relations.
In a press conference offered to international media from Moscow, Russia, Venezuela’s President stated that diverse issues and agreements were overhauled [...]
Chávez and Medvedev analyze world economic, social, and moral crisis
ABN 22/07/2008
Moscow, Jul 22. ABN.- “The world is living a situation of economic, social, and moral crisis”, said the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, at the Russian Presidential House, during the first meeting held with his Russian counterpart, Dmitri Medvedev.
Chávez told Medvedev that “the world is living a situation [...]
Chávez: Venezuela is becoming a powerful country
ABN 22/07/2008
Moscow, Jul 22. ABN.- “Venezuela is becoming, gradually, in our own dimensions, a powerful country in Latin America”, stated the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, some minutes before starting his meeting with his Russian counterpart, Dmitri Medvedev.
President Chávez said that “Venezuela is rising its military power, it economic power, [...]
Extreme poverty in Venezuela decreased to 7.9% between 1998 and 2007
ABN 22/07/2008
Caracas, Jul 22 ABN.- Extreme poverty rates in Venezuela decreased from 17.1% for the second half of 1998 up to a 7.9% for the same period in 2007, according to figures released by the National Statistics Institute (INE, for its Spanish abbreviation).
At a press conference offered on Tuesday 22nd, the INE director, Elias [...]
President Chávez pleads for a multipolar world
Moscow, Jul 22. ABN.- The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, defended this Tuesday, at his arrival to Moscow, the idea of “establishing a world based on a multipolar order allowing the full right of peoples to freedom, self-determination, and sovereignty.”
The statements were made by Venezuela’s President at the Airport [...]
Russia and Venezuela keep a perfect identity in their foreign policy
ABN 22/07/2008
Caracas, Jul 22. ABN.- The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, emphasized that Venezuela and Russia have a perfect identity in their foreign policy, which has allowed them to reach higher levels in their relations.
In a press conference offered to international media from Moscow, Russia, Venezuela’s President stated that [...]
Bolivia’s Movement Towards Socialism Prepares for Recall Referendums
With the victory of an unlikely opposition candidate in the June 29 election for prefect (governor) of Chuquisaca, the number of opposition-controlled prefectures increased to seven out of nine. The result came as the right-wing opposition plots the extension of its regionalized resistance against Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales.
Sabina Cuellar — a former peasant [...]
Putin wants closer military ties with Venezuela
22/07/2008 20:23 NOVO-OGARYOVO, July 22 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday that he hopes military ties between the countries will strengthen.
Chavez, who is currently on an official visit to Russia, discussed political, economic and defense cooperation with the premier at Putin’s residence near Moscow.
“We [...]
Refinería del Pacífico is strategic to keep the Motherland
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, said this Tuesday that the project to build a joint hydrocarbon refining company, called Refinería del Pacífico, located in Manta, Ecuador, will be strategic to keep the Motherland.
After signing the Charter of the Refinería del Pacífico (Refinery of the Pacific) by the presidents [...]
Chávez pleaded for unity to build the motherland
The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, stressed that in this world of imperialism, neocolonialism, imperialist and capitalist hegemony, unity is essential to build our motherlands, with the XXI century socialism as the path of freedom in the political, economic, cultural and technological issues.
This statement was issued by Venezuela’s president [...]
Venezuela dynamizes the integration of Latin America and the Caribbean
“Venezuela represents the more dynamizer initiative of integration and union processes of Latin American and Caribbean countries in this right moment, not only because its energy, but its energetic policy and leadership”, the internationalist Luis Quintana said.
Furthermore, Quintana stated that “in this historical moment, there is in South America a kind of convergence of [...]
The War on Democracy
by John Pilger
The War on Democracy is John Pilger’s first major film for the cinema – in a career that has produced more than 55 television documentaries. Set in Latin America and the US, it explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.
“The film tells a universal [...]
Venezuela Urges United Response to Food and Energy Crises at MERCOSUR Summit
At the 35th Summit of the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) on Tuesday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez advocated deepening South American independence from imperialist countries through united responses to social problems.
“Today South America is much more politically independent than ten years ago,” Chávez declared at the summit, which took place in the Argentine province [...]
Non-Aligned Countries Endorse Venezuelan Proposal for Alternative World Media
Mérida, July 5, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)– At the 7th Conference of Information Ministers of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries held in Venezuela’s Margarita Island last week, more than 80 country delegations endorsed Venezuela’s proposal to create an alternative worldwide media network.
The Margarita Declaration signed Friday lays out a working agenda for constructing a “new international communicational [...]
