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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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By Kiraz Janicke - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez classified the intention of the worlds
largest oil company, ExxonMobil, to freeze assets of state-owned
Venezuelan oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), as part of a US
government backed "economic war".
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By Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM)
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
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Leaders of the Socialist Party of Malaysia met up with Venezuela's Ambassador, Manuel Guzm'an and First secretary, Carlos J. Paez to express their continues support on the Revolutionary efforts undertaken by Chavez in his move to build Socialism in the 21st century.
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By Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias
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Friday, 01 February 2008 |
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The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will execute the
Law against Hoarding and Speculation for those businessmen trying to
create an irregular situation with the food chain products.
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By Reinaldo Iturriza López
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Friday, 01 February 2008 |
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Letting the grassroots lead is the only way forward from the referendum defeat, says Reinaldo Iturriza López.
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By Kiraz Janicke - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Friday, 01 February 2008 |
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Venezuelan union leader Orlando Chirino classified his dismissal from
state owned oil company PDVSA, as an act of ‘discrimination and
political persecution" this week.
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By Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
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Around 5000 tons of food has been seized during year 2008, as part of
the operative Food Sovereignty Plan carried out by the National Guard
and other organisms of the Venezuelan State, The plan is aimed at
struggling against contraband and hoarding.
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By Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
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Socialist political party PSUV's national coordinator, Jorge Rodriguez,
said Monday that the PSUV Foundational Congress will established the
tools to select the candidates that will be chosen by the grass roots.
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By Presidential Commission to Organize the PSUV
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
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Convened on January 12, 2008, some 1,676 congress delegates elected
from almost 15,000 socialist battalions - local units of the PSUV -
will discuss and debate this draft program, as well as the proposed
priniciples and statutes of the new party, over the next two months.
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By Tom Templeton - The Observer
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
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Here we publish an article from The Observer about Guadalupe Rodriguez, from the Coordinadora Simón Bolivar in Caracas, who attended the Hands off Venezuela National Conference in November last year.
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By Michael Fox - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
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This weekend, pro-Chavez grassroots social movements transformed the
reflection after the loss of the constitutional reform into action, and
held an unprecedented 2-day long grassroots assembly with the goal of
building a unified agenda.
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By Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
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Venezuela’s National Consumer Protection and
Education Institute (Indecu) closed 75 food vendors.
The measure
was taken in most cases because of speculation in food sales.
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By Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
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This Friday Venezuela’s National Consumer
Protection and Education Institute confiscated a total of 10
tons of chicken. The product was then sold at a regulated price.
This is part of a government effort to counter speculation and corporate resistance against price regulations.
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By Kiraz Janicke and Federico Fuentes - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008 |
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Over one year after he first proposed the formation of the United
Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
opened the founding congress of the new party on Saturday.
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By Patrick Leet
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 |
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The corporate media are spinning the reform referendum defeat beyond all recognition. Patrick Leet sorts the facts from the fantasy.
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By Hands Off Venezuela
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Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
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Here we link to some prominent Opinions and Analysis about the defeat in Venezuelan Constitutional Reform.
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By Gregory Wilpert – Venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 03 December 2007 |
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Venezuela's
President Chavez gave a historic concession speech Sunday night. For the first
time in nine years, after winning twelve nation-wide electoral contests, Chavez
had to concede defeat, using his trademark phrase "for now."
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By Darrall Cozens, Caracas
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Tuesday, 13 November 2007 |
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A red sea of elected PSUV representatives greeted Chávez at the Caracas Poliedro on November 6th. They were there to launch the campaign for the constitutional reform referendum. Darral Cozens, a Hands Off Venezuela activist from Britain was also there.
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By Rodrigo Trompiz and Jorge Martin (with eyewitness information from Caracas)
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
According
to eyewitness reports from Hands Off Venezuela members, violence broke
out yesterday in Caracas when opposition students arrived back from a
peaceful demonstration against the proposed constitutional reforms (with pictures and video).
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By Venezuela Solidarity Network
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Thursday, 04 October 2007 |
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Pandemic
Studios announced on Sept. 24, 2007 that it is delaying the release of its
new video game Mercenaries 2: World at War which is set in Venezuela. Pandemics' planned release of Mercenaries 2 in time for the 2007 holiday
buying season had created worldwide controversy since the story line
involved a mercenary invasion of Venezuela when "a dictator messes with
the oil supply."
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By Gemma Salvetti and Francesco Merli - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
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The Bolivarian Revolution started with the
people and for the people. Health is a human right which is not marketable.
This is the first step towards social justice.
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By Kiraz Janicke – Venezuelanalysis.com
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
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Venezuelan opposition protestors violently attacked the offices of
privately owned Venezuelan regional daily, Panorama, on Monday, with
the aim of shutting the newspaper down.
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By Charley Allan - Morning Star
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Friday, 14 September 2007 |
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Solidarity campaigners blasted London mayoral hopeful Boris Johnson on
Wednesday for calling Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a "left-wing dictator."
In a letter to Mr Johnson, the London branch of Hands Off Venezuela
said that he showed "great ignorance that should worry every resident
of this
city."
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By Chris Carlson - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 03 September 2007 |
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Thanks to a deal between the Venezuelan government and the mayor of
London, the English capital began offering half-price bus fares to poor
residents of the city this week. The plan to supply the city with
discounted oil will allow 250,000 of the poorest residents of London to
more easily use public transport.
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By John Pilger
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Friday, 17 August 2007 |
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Democracy and hope in Latin America have been revived by Venezuela's leader. But the forces allied against him are formidable says John Pilger in The Guardian
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By Kiraz Janicke – Venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 13 August 2007 |
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The formation of the new Unifiedd Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) is well underway. The founding congress,
which will discuss the political program and statutes of the new party,
is scheduled to begin in September and to conclude in December.
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By Hands Off Venezuela
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Friday, 29 June 2007 |
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The formation of the new United
Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) entered its second phase this past
weekend as officials and party militants met for the National Meeting
of Candidates for PSUV Militants in Caracas. Record numbers of
Venezuelans have registered to be members of the new party.
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By Hands Off Venezuela Canada
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
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On Sunday 17th June, Marxist writer Michael Lebowitz spoke to an
audience of just over 100 in Toronto. It was a very successful event,
meant to promote Lebowitz's new book Build it Now.
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By Gregory Wilpert – Venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 11 June 2007 |
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Chavez accused the Venezuelan
opposition and the U.S. of planning a "soft coup with a slow fuse,"
using the same method that has been applied in various eastern European
countries in the past few years.
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By George Ciccariello-Maher - CounterPunch
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Monday, 11 June 2007 |
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In response to the Venezuelan governments
non-renewal of RCTV's broadcasting license, a concession which
expired on May 27th at midnight, a new student movement emerged
that has since grabbed headlines domestically and internationally. But it's worth
asking: who are "the students," and what do they represent?
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By Ted Sprague
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
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In the midst of the hue and
cry over the non-renewal of RCTV’s license in Venezuela, freedom of speech is
being blatantly violated in other parts of the world. In Indonesia, an event to discuss
Marta Harnecker’s book ‘Understanding the
Venezuelan Revolution’ was disrupted through intimidations by the police
and hooligans.
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By Chris Carlson - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Wednesday, 23 May 2007 |
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Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez
called on Pope Benedict XVI to apologize to the indigenous people of
Latin America for his comments on the supposedly benign evangelization
of the region.
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By Chris Carlson - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Monday, 07 May 2007 |
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Thousands of Venezuelans came out
yesterday in Caracas and in four other Venezuelan states to register
for the new United Socialist Party of Venezuela. To emphasize the
importance of the new party, President Hugo Chavez canceled his weekly
TV program Aló Presidente yesterday in order to register himself in the
new party.
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By Chris Carlson - Venezuelanalysis.com
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Friday, 04 May 2007 |
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced the possibility of new
nationalizations, including private banks and the steel industry, at an
event to celebrate the industrial program Fábrica Adentro
yesterday. The purpose of the event was the granting of funding to 49
different "productive companies" with the intention of reactivating and
expanding national industry.
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