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By Pablo Sanchez - HOV Belgium
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
 This is a report from the HOV delegation to the first all-European gathering of Venezuela solidarity organisations in Amsterdam with over 100 participants from different solidairty organisations around Europe. The HOV delegation consisted of comrades from Poland, Hungary, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Germany and
Portugal.
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By Kiraz Janicke - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 |
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Caracas, June 29th 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com) -- Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez called for all Latin American governments to organize
demonstrations in solidarity with the people of Honduras at an emergency
meeting of the nine member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for Our
Americas (ALBA) in Mangaua, Nicaragua, Sunday night.
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By Tamara Pearson - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 29 June 2009 |
 "This morning military personal kidnapped Honduran president
Manuel Zelaya. According to one witness, 200 soldiers arrived at the
president's house at 6am this morning, 4 shots were
fired and later they left in vehicles towards the air base. The
soldiers also took over the government television station, Channel 8,
and took it off air. Zelaya is currently speaking live on Telsur TV,
from Costa Rica."
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By Eva Golinger - www.venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 29 June 2009 |
 Caracas, Venezuela - The text message that beeped on my cell phone
this morning read "Alert, Zelaya has been kidnapped, coup d'etat
underway in Honduras, spread the word." It's a rude awakening for a
Sunday morning, especially for the millions of Hondurans that were
preparing to exercise their sacred right to vote today for the first
time on a consultative referendum concerning the future convening of a
constitutional assembly to reform the constitution.
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By James Suggett – Venezuelanalysis.com
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Thursday, 23 April 2009 |
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Manuel Rosales, a prominent Venezuelan opposition leader and mayor of Maracaibo facing corruption charges, failed to appear at a court appointment on Monday and has reportedly arrived in Peru and sought political asylum.
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By Mel MacDonald
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Friday, 13 March 2009 |
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No Volveran
the film made by members of the Hands Off Venezuela campaign was
broadcast to millions on the popular daily show La Hojilla. The
presenter, Mario Silva described the documentary saying: "This documentary
shows how the people organise from the ranks, and also the organisation of the
working class in the factories".
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By Venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 16 February 2009 |
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At 9:35pm yesterday local time, with 94.2% of voted counted, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council
announced that Venezuelans had voted 54.4% to 45.6% in favor of a
constitutional amendment to eliminate the two-term limit on all elected
office.
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By James Suggett and Tamara Pearson - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 16 February 2009 |
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Since the trumpets and fireworks woke up Venezuelans at three o'clock yesterday morning to vote in a national referendum on whether to amend the
constitution to abolish the two-term limit on all elected offices, the
electoral process has been tranquil, democratic, and efficient.
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By Tamara Pearson - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Sunday, 15 February 2009 |
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Today Venezuelans will go to the polls to vote for or against an
amendment to the constitution to eliminate the two-term limit on all
elected offices. Both sides
rallied, marched, attended concerts, and participated in motorcades on
Thursday and Friday, to close off their campaigns.
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By James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Sunday, 15 February 2009 |
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Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that the
auditing and setup of the country’s 35,000 voting centers was finished on Friday, and the Venezuelan Armed Forces
announced that 140,000 soldiers will guarantee voters’ safety as they
go to the polls today.
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By Hands Off Venezuela
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Friday, 13 February 2009 |
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Following on from the brutal killing of workers at the Mitsubishi plant in
Venezuela, yesterday three workers were shot at as they drove through the town
of Barcelona. Fortunately they were not injured, but we must step up the
campaign of solidarity to stop these attacks.
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By Samuel Grove - Red Pepper Venezuela Blog
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Tuesday, 10 February 2009 |
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We reproduce here an article from Red Pepper's Venezuela blog that criticises Francisco Toro's concept of democracy. Contrary to Francisco Toro, who claims that Venezuela suffers from "Savage democracy", Samuel Grove considers the democratic record of the last 10 years of revolution to be something to celebrate.
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By CMR Anzoátegui
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Friday, 06 February 2009 |
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On Tuesday industrial workers,
workers from the service sector and from the state sector, together with
members of dozens of communal councils, marched through the streets of Barcelona to condemn the
killing of two Mitsubishi workers the week before.
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By Tamara Pearson - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Friday, 06 February 2009 |
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To celebrate 10 years in government President Hugo Chavez declared
February 2 a public holiday, seeing thousands rallying and celebrating
around the country, and shops, schools, and banks closed.
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By James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Friday, 06 February 2009 |
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On Wednesday,
representatives of Venezuela and the United States to the Organization
of American States (OAS) shared concerns about last Saturday’s attack
on a prominent synagogue in Caracas and accused each other’s
governments of playing a role in the incident. Also, the Venezuelan
foreign relations minister met with representatives of the Venezuelan
Jewish community to offer condolences and to guarantee a successful
investigation.
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By Tamara Pearson - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Saturday, 31 January 2009 |
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Workers accuse the police of shooting two fellow workers on January 29 who
were participating in the occupation of a Mitsubishi plant in
Barcelona, Anzoategui state. We publish here a report by Venezuelanalysis.
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By Hands Off Venezuela
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Friday, 30 January 2009 |
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Just seen news in the Venezuelan media (and through the embassy)
that all the police officers involved in the attack against the
Mitsubishi workers have now been suspended and handed over to the
prosecutor's office. It is to be hoped that the investigation will be
thorough and will bring all those responsible to account.
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By Hands Off Venezuela
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Friday, 30 January 2009 |
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In
the
afternoon of Thursday, January 29 (Venezuelan time), two workers
were killed by police in the state of Anzoategui, Venezuela. The
workers killed are Pedro Suarez from the Mitsubishi factory and José
Marcano from nearby auto parts factory Macusa. They were killed when
regional police of Anzoategui was attempting to evict hundreds of workers
who had been occupying the Mitsubitshi (MMC) factory.
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By Hands Off Venezuela
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Thursday, 08 January 2009 |
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Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry condemned the Israeli bombing of Gaza in a
statement released on December 27, 2008, expressing its “profound indignation” over
the “criminal attack,” and urged the Israeli government to adhere to
the United Nations Charter.
Later Venezuela
has expelled the Israeli ambassador to protest against the
country's assault on Gaza, after the Venezuelan president described it
as a "holocaust".
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By HOV Canada
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Friday, 12 December 2008 |
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On Friday November 28th 1200 trade unionists at the BC
Federation of Labour convention voted unanimously to endorse the Hands
Off Venezuela Campaign. The Federation represents 450,000 union
members in British Columbia. This victory for the Venezuelan
solidarity movement came after years of patient work with and within
the labour movement.
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By Prensa Web YVKE, ABN
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Friday, 05 December 2008 |
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Beneficiaries, teachers, adults, disabled people, students and workers came out on Friday to defend the social missions and programs of the national government in the face of threats to close them down by the new governor-elect of the state of Miranda, Henrique Capriles Radonski.
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By Jorge Martín, Yonnie Moreno and William Sanabria - www.marxist.com
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
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The final results of the Venezuelan elections are now out.
The Socialist United Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has won about 80% of all local
councils and 17 out of the 22 governors that were up for election. However the loss of Miranda, Carabobo and the Metropolitan
District of Caracas, all of them extremely important from the point of view of
politics, economy and population, and the fact that the PSUV did not win Zulia is a serious warning for the revolution,
which has to be added to the defeat of the constitutional reform referendum.
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By Venezuela Information Office
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
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Regional elections held in Venezuela on November 23rd,
2008 have been portrayed in the U.S. media as a defeat for the
government of President Hugo Chávez, when in fact the results strongly
favor his party, the PSUV. The vast majority of state governorships and
mayoralties, including those in many strategic parts of the country
such as the Orinoco Oil Belt, remain under pro-government leadership.
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By Will Grant - BBC News, Caracas
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
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First, London buses were run on cheap Venezuelan fuel. Then, former
mayor of London Ken Livingstone began advising authorities in Caracas
on traffic problems. Now, the latest link between the two areas appears
to be in education.
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By Tamara Pearson & Gregory Wilpert - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008 |
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Yesterday morning Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced
that the opposition won in two more states, in Tachira and Carabobo,
which had been too close to call last night.
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By Gregory Wilpert - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008 |
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President Hugo Chavez’s governing party, the United Socialist Party of
Venezuela (PSUV) got mixed results in the regional and local elections
today, winning strongly in 17 out of 23 states, but losing the country’s two most
populous states and the Capital District of Caracas, with two more
states still to be decided.
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By HVSA-HoV Hungary
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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On November 8, the Hands Off Venezuela campaign welcomed into its ranks the Hungarian-Venezuelan Solidarity Association (HVSA), who after a period of close collaboration and discussions had decided to join HOV. This is a welcome addition to our campaign and we look forward to stepping up the solidarity work with these comrades.
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By Hungarian - Venezuelan Solidarity Association
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Monday, 27 October 2008 |
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The Hungarian – Venezuelan Solidarity Association (HVSA) will join the Hands off Venezuela officially, on its conference on 8 November 2008
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By Colombia Solidarity Campaign
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
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S.O.S For the right to protest and safety of indigenous
people, campesinos and cane cutter.
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By James Petras
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
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Human Rights Watch, a US-based group claiming to be a non-governmental organization, but which is in fact funded by government-linked quasi-private foundations and a Congressional funded political propaganda organization, the National Endowment for Democracy, has issued a report “A Decade Under Chavez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela” (9/21/2008 hrw.org).
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By Stephen Lendman - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
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With a few months left in office, the Bush administration may be
unleashing its last hurrah in Latin America. Stephen Lendman analyses the recent attempts by the U.S. government to destabilize Bolivia and Venezuela.
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By Paul Haste and Charley Allan - Morning Star
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 |
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Paul Haste and Charley Allan witness London’s Latin American community and British trade unionists and MPs come together in solidarity (Morning Star, Friday September 19 2008)
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By Charley Allan - Morning Star
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 |
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(Morning Star, Wednesday September 17 2008) Exactly 35 years after a CIA-orchestrated coup brought down Salvador
Allende's socialist government in Chile, the political climate in Latin
America is boiling over and now threatens to explode.
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By Gregory Wilpert – Venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 15 September 2008 |
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Reacting to the expulsion of its ambassador to Venezuela, the Bush
administration attempted to retaliate by expelling the already
withdrawn Venezuelan ambassador to the U.S.
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By James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 15 September 2008 |
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez confirmed that several people have
been detained for suspected involvement in a recently foiled plot to
assassinate him and to take over federal government buildings.
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By Tamara Pearson - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
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On Wednesday night Mario Silva, on the program "La Hojilla" (The Razor
Blade) showed a recording from an unidentified source in which various
military personnel, some retired and some active, were planning a coup
against Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
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By Jose Orozco and Matthew Walter - Bloomberg
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Friday, 12 September 2008 |
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the U.S. ambassador to leave
within 72 hours, in a show of support for Bolivian President Evo
Morales, who also expelled the top U.S. diplomat from his country.
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By James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez pledged decisive support Sunday for
the Yukpa indigenous people who have occupied 14 large estates in the
northwestern state of Zulia to demand legal title to their ancestral
lands.
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By Venezuela Information Office
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
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The Los Angeles Times continued its trend of biased reporting on
Venezuela yesterday, running an article that claims the radical group
Hezbollah is tolerated - even supported - by the Chavez administration.
Help us remind the Times that Venezuela does not support terrorism, and
demand that they correct the record!
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By FRETECO
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
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We have received the following appeal from the comrades of FRETECO
(Revolutionary front of workers of the occupied factories) in
Venezuela. The workers of one of the occupied factories, INAF, are
being threatened with eviction from the factory on August 30th by the
former boss. Please support workers’ control and sign this resolution! (Also in Spanish)
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By Venezuela Information Office
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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International Crisis Group (ICG), issued a report on
Venezuela entitled, “Venezuela: Political Reform or Regime Demise?”
Considering that the ICG is recognized today as one of the leading
sources for the prevention and resolution of violent conflict in the
world, the report is underwhelming in the amount of factual information
and objective sources it utilizes.
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By Asad Ismi
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
In Toronto, Dr. Maria Paez Victor of the Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle and a close colleague of Hands Off Venezuela, is interviewed by the Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives:
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By Radio Nacional de Venezuela
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
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An open letter by several intellectuals to Interpol, in which they demand the retraction of the May 15, 2008 press statement about the seized FARC computers. The letter reveals several contradictions in the Interpol statement. (Also in Spanish)
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By Calvin Tucker - 21st Century Socialism
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
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What would you call an organisation that when caught making false allegations, refuses to answer legitimate questions or hold an investigation? Answer: Transparency International!
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By Pablo Roldan and Mauro Vanetti
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Friday, 06 June 2008 |
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Opposition students in Venezuela are depicted as poor
victims of an authoritarian regime. The world media pick up on this and repeat
the fairy tale until people start to believe it. But these students are such
victims that they receive hundreds of thousands of dollars in the form of the
"Milton Friedman Liberty Prize". Friedman's Chicago Boys were also
advisers to Pinochet, no doubt also seen as a "victim" by these people.
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By Kiraz Janicke & Federico Fuentes, venezuelanalysis.com
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
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The democratic primaries held by the 5.7-million-strong United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on June 1, to choose candidates for the November 23 regional elections for mayors and governors, are crucial for re-engaging and revitalising the grassroots of the Chavista movement to push the revolution forward.
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By HOV reporters
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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
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A few days ago London's Tory mayor, Boris Johnson, scrapped
the discounted oil deal with the Venezuelan government which allowed half price
bus fares for Londoners on income support.
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By Kiraz Janicke - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
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Controversies erupted in the past few days over the nomination process
for candidates for the upcoming November gubernatorial and mayoral
elections. One of these controversies, involving a popular mayor who
wants to run for governor of his state was resolved following President
Chavez's intervention.
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By Kiraz Janicke - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Thursday, 29 May 2008 |
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The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) is set to organize a
300,000 strong network of “permanent mobilization” to carry out
political activity “including the defense of Venezuelan sovereignty,”
according to Darío Vivas, head of the PSUV’s Events and Mobilization
Commission.
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By Kiraz Janicke - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed a collective contract with
workers at the Sidor steel plant yesterday, formalizing an agreement
reached between workers and the government last week. Also, Chavez signed the law-decree for the nationalization of Sidor.
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By Jorge Martin - International Secretary Hands Off Venezuela
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
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On the 9th of April, Venezuelan vice-president Ramon
Carrizalez announced the decision of President Chávez to renationalise the
giant steel plant SIDOR. The decision was taken as the
Argentinean-Italian multinational group Techint
refused to make concessions to the workers in the collective bargaining
agreement.
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By Erik Demeester, HOV Belgium
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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The
Hands Off Venezuela stall at the Cairo Conference held recently attracted a lot
of interest. There was also a well-participated meeting which has opened up the
possibility of launching HOV in Egypt.
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By James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced Thursday that the cement
industry in Venezuela will be nationalized, saying that foreign
companies export cement while the Venezuelan market suffers from high
prices and shortages.
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By VIO Venezuela News & Action
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Friday, 28 March 2008 |
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There is a growing concerted campaign in the US Congress and in newspapers aimed at adding Venezuela to the list of terrorist states. This would impose a number of sanctions and actions against Venezuela and the Bolivarian revolution. Find out what you can do against the ongoing criminalisation.
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By Hands Off Venezuela / TeleSur / Agencies
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
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A London High Court judge on Tuesday suspended a court order
which froze 12 billion dollars (7.6 billion euros) of assets owned by Venezuela
state oil firm PDVSA in a dispute with US energy giant ExxonMobil.
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By Hands Off Venezuela / YKVE Mundial / Agencies
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
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In a speech given during the swearing in of the new national
leadership of the Socialist United Party of Venezuela (PSUV), president Chávez
announced the nationalisation of the country's largest chain of slaughterhouses
and of a milk company, as part of a plan to struggle against food sabotage.
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By Kiraz Janicke Venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
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Unionists have rejected the actions of 120
functionaries of the National Guard and 60 police who attacked and broke up
protest of workers from the Argentine controlled Ternium Sidor steel plant,
who were blocking the principle avenue of Cuidad Guayana, early Friday.
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By Kiraz Janicke Venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 17 March 2008 |
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Thousands of workers at Venezuela's
largest steelmaker, Argentine-controlled Ternium Sidor, extended a 48-hour
strike that started late Wednesday to 80 hours today, as part of a dispute for
a collective contract that has dragged out for 13 months.
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By VIO Venezuela News & Action
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
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Last weekend, the Colombian government led a military attack on the
FARC in Ecuadorean territory, killing more than 20 persons including a
key FARC negotiator involved in recent hostage releases. Since then,
most news coverage has focused on the reactions of Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez and to a lesser extent Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa,
excluding the actions of the Colombian military and its president.
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By Luis Granados Ceja - HOV Canada
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
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In an early morning attack on March 1, 2008 Colombian military forces
made an incursion into Ecuadorian territory and murdered several
FARC-EP guerrillas, including spokesperson Raúl Reyes. The goal of this
operation was to undermine the progress that had been made with
Colombia’s government and the FARC-EP as a result of Chávez’s mediation
efforts.
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By P. Bowman in Dublin
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
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This year the Connolly Festival took place on the 22nd and 23rd of
February. It included sessions with guest speakers on the US elections
and the role of the democrats, the "shock doctrine" and alternatives to
privatisations and disaster capitalism, alternatives within the student
movement in Ireland, and the model for change that Venezuela represents.
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By Chris Carlson Venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
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Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez labeled Colombia the "Israel of Latin America" yesterday after the Colombian military made an illegal
cross border attackr in Ecuador, the Venezuelan leader called
Colombia a "terrorist state," and gave orders to mobilize troops on the
Venezuelan-Colombian border.
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By George Ciccariello-Maher
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
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19 years ago, on February 27th 1989, a spontaneous uprising on the streets of Venezuela as a direct result of IMF polices was violently repressed. In what became known as the Caracazo, thousands were murdered by the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez. To commemorate this crucial event in the history of the Bolivarian Revolution, here we re-publish the following article, originally available on CounterPunch this time last year.
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By Chris Carlson - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
continued to focus on the nation's agricultural production detailing the government policies that
are resulting in higher national food production, during his Sunday TV
and radio program Aló Presidente.
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By James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 18 February 2008 |
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The maximum compensation Exxon should receive for its nationalized stake in the Orinoco River belt project is $1.2
billion, which is a tenth of Exxon's claim to $12 billion of PDVSA's
assets, which were temporarily frozen, said Venezuelan Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Rafael Ramírez, on Thursday.
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By PSUV delegates
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Monday, 18 February 2008 |
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In the face of the empire's counterrevolutionary campaign United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV)
manifests its support for the Bolivarian government and Commandante
Chavez.
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By Hands Off Venezuela
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
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The Montreal Coordinator for the HOV campaign, Lorenzo Fiorito sent us these news stories and thought that they would be of interest to readers of the HOV site.
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By James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez threatened to nationalize the milk
factories of Nestle and Parmalat, accusing the transnational food
companies of bribing producers and leaving the network of state-owned
and cooperative milk processing plants without the product.
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By James Suggett – Venezuelanalysis.com
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
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When the recent accusations of government-sponsored anti-Semitism are
thoroughly investigated, it is revealed that in the majority
of cases, the strongly anti-imperialist political sentiments of
Venezuelan social movements are erroneously
conflated with anti-Semitism.
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