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Bienvenidos a Venezuela Señor Makin … your Thomson holiday turned out to be a decisive factor in your miserable future!
By: Roy S. Carson
What in hell was Makin thinking? Did he REALLY believe he could get away with it? Perhaps he thought he could slip a couple of hundred US$ to someone in the feeding chain of Venezuelan officialdom on his way out — but did he really think that he’d
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Chavez celebrates Federal War’s 150th anniversary with military parade in Coro
By: Patrick J. O’Donoghue
On Friday, President Chavez organized a military parade to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Federal War. Chavez proclaims that Federal War was a revolution of the poor who raised the flag of Simon Bolívar and for the first time in Venezuela t
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Books on money laundering likely won’t be in Stanford bank’s computers
By: Arthur Shaw
The US-imperialist-loving Venezuelan bourgeoisie and much its long ugly tail, the middle class, are at the moment kind of worried about the possibility of losing in an imperialist-perpetrated “massive fraud” as much as $5 billion in “legal” transacti
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Ex-wife: Drug Brit is “a cheating scumbag … getting everything he deserves!”
By: Stewart Whittingham
The first wife of a Brit accused of a £1.2 million cocaine smuggling plot in Venezuela said last night: “If he goes to jail, he’ll get what’s been coming to him for years.” Nicola Saint, 27, branded ex-squaddie Paul Makin a “scumbag.” And she said he
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Children of couple accused of drug smuggling in Venezuela to return home
By: The Times Online
The children of a British couple accused of drug smuggling in Venezuela are expected to return home in the next two weeks. Paul and Laura Makin, from Birkenhead, Wirral, were detained for allegedly carrying 24kg of cocaine stuffed in their suitcases.
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Dramatic moment when UK couple said goodbye to children in Venezuela
By: Sunday Mirror UK
Paul and Laura Makin — both 31 — had been taken by police to a children’s home to spend a few final minutes with their two-year-old twins, and an older son and a daughter. The photograph shows Laura’s eyes are clearly tear-stained red. One of her t
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UK media: Drug mule family children ‘cooped up in tiny flat without toys’
By: Sunday Mirror UK
The Makins’ children have had their toys taken away and spend their days sobbing in a care home. Their grandparents have revealed that twins Libi and Luci and Megan and Jack are currently cooped up in temporary accommodation with no garden to play in
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The 53-nation Commonwealth Summit: A Caribbean opportunity
By: Sir Ronald Sanders
Trinidad & Tobago’s prime minister, Patrick Manning, will become the Chairman-in-Office of the 53-nation Commonwealth in November this year when his country hosts the organisation’s biennial summit. For two years thereafter, Mr Manning should, theor
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Caracas neighborhood Petare is the voice of Chavez’ poor opposition
By: Casto Ocando
The poor Caracas neighborhood of Petare, home to an estimated one million people living mostly in self-built homes, requires a large dose of precaution when visiting. The poverty of Petare has reached critical levels, and violence claims several live
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President Hugo Chavez ends visit to Cuban leaders Raul and Fidel Castro
By: Itar-Tass
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ended his unexpected and brief visit to Cuba, during which he had talks with Cuban leader Raul Castro and met with Fidel Castro. During the meetings the Venezuelan leader discussed the situation on the internation
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Vietnam seeks Miss World model-training program in Venezuela
By: Vietnam News
“We have been offered a modeling training program from a Venezuelan company recently. They invited us to Venezuela to study and implement our Vietnam program. This is also a part of our future plan so we decided to halt the exclusive contract for one
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Venezuela: Referendum victory advances process of change
By: Chris Kerr
“Today we opened wide the gates of the future … Truth against lies [and] the dignity of the homeland has triumphed.” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez insisted to tens of thousands of celebrating supporters after Venezuelans voted to amend the constitution
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Latin Am media gives heavy coverage to Chinese vice president’s visit
By: Xinhua
In Mexico, local newspaper El Universal said Xi’s stay in Mexico, though just 48 hours, has inspired great interest in China from the Mexican entrepreneurs. Another local newspaper OEM said Xi’s visit advanced the China-Mexico ties, enhanced politica
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VenEconomy: Hugo Chavez has it in mind to call a constituent assembly
By: Laht.com
For some months now, there have been rumors that Hugo Chavez has it in mind to call a constituent assembly. A number of government spokesmen have explained on different occasions that the 1999 Constitution is merely a temporary charter and that the u
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in surprise visit to Cuba
By: Wire Services
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was in Cuba on Saturday, paying a surprise visit to the island after a major poll win last Sunday. It is the Venezuelan leader’s first trip abroad since winning a referendum on February 15 that removed term limits on
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Closed Consulates and closed minds: Bush’s last shot at Hugo Chavez…
By: Robert Buzzanco
On Friday, November 7, 2008, the US Department of State closed the Venezuelan consulate in Houston and gave the consul general and staff 72 hours to leave the country … another distressing development in the continuing US program to isolate and des
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