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Venezuela backs replacing US$ as new international reserve currency
By: El Universal
The Venezuelan government has endorsed China’s proposal to create a new international reserve currency to replace the US$, at the 50th Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) summit, reported Efe. “Everything points to a new global financial architec
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Spanish PM Zapatero suggests Chavez to encourage foreign investment
By: El Universal
Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said that he “is very attentive” to the way how Banco de Venezuela, a su
bsidiary of Spanish Santander bank, will be nationalized by the Venezuelan government. Zapatero advised President Hugo Chavez
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Venezuela opposition leader faces up to 10 years in prison for corruption
By: Reuters
Rosales is the most visible face of Venezuela’s fractured opposition movement and he was beaten by the socialist Chavez in the 2006 presidential election. His move to escape arrest could help the socialist Chavez consolidate his control over the OPEC
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US president Obama is off to Europe for the G20 economic conference
By: Chris Herz
US president Barack Obama is off to Europe for the G20 economic conference, and already the outlines of this meeting are clear. There will be the US, in isolation as so often in these affairs, claiming that the economic melt-down will be successfully
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VenEconomy: Slave of imperial Washington, says “No one is untouchable!”
By: Arthur Shaw
There is a security issue because the Venezuelan bourgeoisie and US imperialists, whom VenEconomy serves and for whom it speaks, are importing Colombia death squads and mobilizing Venezuelan junkies to attack the people at large and attack specific
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Patrick J. O’Donoghue’s news and views from Venezuela — March 31, 2009
By: Patrick J. O’Donoghue
President Chavez has arrived in Doha, capital of Qatar to attend the second South America-Arab countries summit where the main topic on the agenda will be the world financial crisis and its impact on the two regions, along with promoting further Sout
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Writing is on the wall: no one is untouchable in Hugo Chavez’ Venezuela
By: VenEconomy
It is hard to believe that there are still people who think they are safe from judicial terrorism in Hugo Chavez’ fascist, neo-communist autocracy. Not only has the sequestered Judiciary firmly dug its claws into the regime’s political “enemies” (and
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Caracas Metropolitan Mayor tells Venezuela’s military to ignore Chavez
By: NY Foreign Policy Examiner
In a stunning show of defiance, Caracas Metropolitan Mayor Antonio Ledezma called on Venezuela’s military forces to disobey orders from President Chavez because they are against constitutional law. El Pais reported today that the mayor made this know
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President Hugo Chavez sees $80 per barrel as a “fair” price for oil
By: Reuters
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sees $80 per barrel as a “fair” price for oil, according to a government statement sent out late Monday. Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez in recent weeks said he expected oil prices to stabilize at $70 a barrel, describ
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President Hugo Chavez to seek Arab backing for ‘petro-currency’…
By: Wire Services
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought Arab support Tuesday for his idea of a new oil-backed currency to challenge the US$ at a twin-region summit whose agenda focuses on trade issue but also touches on Arab worries about rival Iran’s growing influe
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THE ECONOMIST: Hugo Chavez’ 21st century revolution goes bust
By: Press Democrat
The president insists that the country is shielded by “21st-century socialism” from what is essentially a crisis of capitalism. But between the lines of the modest adjustment package he announced on March 21 can be glimpsed the true gravity of the si
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Venezuela Opposition lifts the lid on high salaries of Chavez officials
By: Laht.com
An opposition politician stole a march on President Hugo Chavez by revealing the high level of salaries he claimed were being paid to top government officials. Chavez has called for senior officials to be paid no more than 12 times the minimum legal
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Opposition’s failure points to an utterly impoverished moral imagination
By: Max Ail
When Venezuelan voters approved a referendum allowing for indefinite re-election on all elected posts, commentary immediately turned to what the reform meant for Chavistas — particularly, the prospect of having Hugo Chavez as president until 2019 or
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Venezuela: Investments down 15% in 2008 compared to post-strike period
By: El Universal
According to the government, the economy has worked smoothly in the last few years and both foreign and domestic investment has climbed. However, recent data show otherwise. Based on the figures provided by the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), direct
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Argentina supports China’s proposal on new global reserve currency
By: Xinhuanet
Argentina’s Central Bank President Martin Redrado said that his country supports China’s proposal on creating an alternative global reserve currency to replace the US dollar. “We have been talking (with China) that we clearly need to seek alternative
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National Guard seizes Caracas Old Market Hall after Chavista takeover
By: Laht.com
An opposition mayor is at loggerheads with a senior government minister after a fracas at a largely disused market hall in the middle of the normally staid, middle class and law-abiding municipality of Chacao. Mayor Emilio Grateron on Monday formally
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Chavez slams arrest warrant issued against Sudan President Omar al-Beshir
By: Africasia.com
Venezuela’ President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday slammed as a “judicial horror” an international arrest warrant issued against Sudan’s President Omar al-Beshir for alleged war crimes in Darfur. The warrant is “a judicial horror and a disrespect to the peo
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CITGO terminal receives top status for environmental stewardship
By: Press Release
The CITGO Chesapeake Terminal, located on the southern branch of the Elizabeth River in Virginia, is one local business that is leading the way within the Elizabeth River Project partnership. The terminal has been recently recognized as a Model Level
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Foreign Policy: EU’s newest states want core members to bail them out
By: Edward Hugh
As Leo Tolstoy might put it, all of Europe’s economies are feeling pretty unhappy right now, but each is unhappy in its own unique way. Nowhere have the effects of the crisis been felt more acutely than in the “peripheral” countries on Europe’s south
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Desalination plant uses ERI technology to supply 350,000 Venezuelans
By: IStockAnalyst
Energy Recovery, Inc., a global leader of ultra-high-efficiency energy recovery products and technology for desalination, was awarded the 75,000 m3/day (20 million US Gallons (MGD)) energy recovery technology contract from Acciona Agua for the Paragu
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