Hugo Chávez

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• Copenhagen special podcast: The Guardians environment team analyse the COP15 agreement

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  A deal is done in Copenhagen but the climate change summit is condemned as a failure. From the middle of the media hall in the Bella Centre where the negotiations have been taking place, the Guardians environment editor John Vidal , US environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg and Asia environment ...
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• Chavez: Obama smells of sulfur, too

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 556
  Hugo Chávez , in Copenhagen (my translation. If you use this translation, please link to this post), …That’s why we thank the president for giving President Morales and me a chance to speak. It would have been regrettable if they had attempted to veto us in this meeting. I don’t even ... Fausta posted 2 ...
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• UN human rights panel accuses Chávez

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Experts criticise president after judge charged with criminal conspiracy A panel of UN human rights experts has accused President Hugo Chávez of creating a climate of fear among Venezuelas judges and undermining the rule of law with the arrest of a judge. The UN working group on arbitrary detention said last ...
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• Penny Wong jeered, Hugo Chavez cheered

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 556
  The Australian climate change minister may not be the world s greatest orator but she had some sensible things to say when she stood up on behalf of the so-called umbrella group of developed countries, including Australia, Canada, Japan, Norway, Iceland and Ukraine. She said, for example, that ... Power Line found ...
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• Law and Legal Culture in Venezuela in Revolutionary Times (1999-2009)

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 126
  Professor Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo has just published on SSRN a Spanish language article on the Venezuelan legal system during the last decade. Law and Legal Culture in Venezuela in Revolutionary Times (1999-2009)http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1513568Abstract:     The paper analyzes changes in ...
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• Evo Morales stuns Copenhagen with demand to limit temperature rise to 1C

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Bolivian president warns of climate holocaust in Africa as Hugo Chávez blames capitalism for climate change Two of the worlds two most radical presidents today shook up the Copenhagen climate change summit by blaming climate change squarely on capitalism and demanding billions of dollars in "reparations" from rich ...
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• Chávez demands jailing of judge who freed banker

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Venezuelan president calls for María Afiuni to pay for release of Eligio Cedeño, who was facing corruption charges The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, has called a judge a criminal and demanded she be jailed for 30 years after she released one of the countrys most prominent prisoners. Police arrested Judge ...
  5 days ago

• Is that Santa? No, its Hugo Chávez

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Venezuelan government spends £860,000 importing 124,000 toys from China to sell on at rockbottom prices Think of a tubby man dressed in red who has an army of helpers distributing Christmas toys, and the odds are you visualise Santa Claus, elves and the north pole. Think again. President Hugo Chávez is delivering ...
  1 week ago

• Chávez targets bank corruption

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  A corruption scandal has shaken Venezuelas financial system and triggered the arrest of tycoons who are linked to President Hugo Chávezs government. Authorities have closed seven banks and detained eight bankers in a widening crackdown which has toppled Jesse Chacón, a cabinet minister and senior Chávez ally. ...
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• Chomsky as Chávez’s Clown / Chomsky en bufón de Chávez

  
  slackbastard — Authority: 135
  A rather odd article by Octavio Alberola , calling Chomsky a clown… Chávez’s clown. There are two direct criticisms in the text. First, on the occasion of his visit to Venezuela in August, Chomsky apparently remarked that “it moved him to meet the men who have inspired this situation”; the second is that, ...
  2 weeks ago

• December 6 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 549
  On December 6: 1534 The city of Quito in Ecuador was founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar .                                                          1648 Colonel Pride of the New Model Army purged the Long ...
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• Anti-Chávez protesters on hunger strike

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Venezuelan university students continue hunger strike to protest against what they say are human rights violations by the Chávez government
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• El Salvador’s Funes moves his chips to the dark side

  
  Machetera — Authority: 410
  Torn between two Models – Funes follows Obama By Diana Barahona – http://dianabarahona.blogspot.com [ Español abajo ] Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes, who was carried to power by the FMLN this past March but quickly jettisoned the party from his government, has obliquely recognized the results of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quality is Ahmadinejad 1

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 559
  This Economist piece is tapped by Fausta to explain “socialist production principles” in the Venezuela of Hugo Chávez: Venirauto’s cars are rehashes of clapped-out 1980s models from the imperialist West. The Turpial, a five-door hatchback, is based on the Ford Festiva, while the Centauro saloon is a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Honduras votes as Zelaya urges boycott

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • US criticised for softening opposition to coup • Ousted president pins hopes on abstentions Hondurans voted for a new president today in a controversial election that coup leaders hope will draw a line under the overthrow of Manuel Zelaya. The de facto government pushed for a high turnout to try to legitimise ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hugo Chávez plans to bomb clouds to end drought

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez is to "bomb" clouds after Cuba provided cloud-seeding help in an effort to produce rain and alleviate the effects of a severe drought. Venezuelas reservoirs are at their lowest levels in decades and water restrictions are in place. The lack of water in hydroelectric dams that supply ...
  3 weeks ago

• To All the Terrorists I’ve Loved Before

  
  Bloodthirsty Liberal — Authority: 150
  This is a few days old, but he’s part of our beat, so…:President Hugo Chavez is praising Carlos the Jackal, the imprisoned Venezuelan once notorious for a series of Cold War-era bombings, assassinations and hostage dramas, saying he was a “revolutionary fighter” and not a terrorist.The Venezuelan president ...
  3 weeks ago

• Colombia Trade Deal Enters Fourth Year of Limbo

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 749
  Sunday marked the third anniversary of the signing of a free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia. It is an embarrassment to our great nation that this agreement with an important Latin American ally still sits on the shelf three years later, a victim of congressional trade politics. As my Cato ...
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• Rory Carroll on Hugo Chávez praising Carlos, Amin & Mugabe

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Rory Carroll on Hugo Chávez praising Carlos, Amin & Mugabe Rory Carroll
  3 weeks ago

• Hugo Chávez defends Carlos the Jackal as a freedom fighter

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Venezuelan president defends Carlos the Jackal as a freedom fighter at gathering of leftist political parties Hugo Chávez has defended the jailed Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal as a freedom fighter and said his life sentence for murder was an injustice. Venezuelas president said Carlos, whose real name is ...
  4 weeks ago

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