Hugo Chavez

Welcome to the 'Hugo Chavez' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Hugo Chavez'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Hugo Chavez”

• Peace & Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

  
  RUPEE NEWS: Recording History, Narrating Archives, Strategic Intellibrief Analysis: Noticias de Rupia | Nouvelles de Roupie | Rupiennachrichten | ??????? ????? | ???? | Rupi Nyheter | ??????? | ????? ????? — Authority: 490
  I know Chavez well, and no one could be more reluctant than him to allow a showdown between the Venezuelan and Colombian peoples leading to bloodshed. These are two fraternal peoples, the same as Cubans living in the east, center and west end of our island. I find no other way to explain the close relationship between ...
  9 hours ago

• Hugo Chavezs Love Letters

  
  The Debate Link — Authority: 428
  He just gave a speech praising notorious terrorist "Carlos the Jackal" as a "revolutionary fighter" important to the Palestinian cause. In his speech, Chavez also sought to defend other leaders he said are wrongly labeled bad guys internationally, including Zimbabwes Robert Mugabe and Irans Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. ...
  12 hours ago

• Anti-Semite Hugo Chavez Praises Muslim Terrorist Convert Carlos the Jackal as a Hero

  
  Vlad Tepes — Authority: 150
  To bad these ’soul mates’ aren’t cell mates “Ilich” Ramírez Sánchez was and still is an unrepentant murderer and terrorist, who is personally responsible for the killing of six people and wounding scores more. The man has been sitting in a French jail ever since his conviction in 1997 and is ...
  18 hours ago

• Chavez praises Carlos the Jackal

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Hugo Chavez is defending alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was a "revolutionary fighter" rather than a terrorist. The Venezuelan president praised Carlos—whose real name is Ilich Sanchez Ramirez—during a speech Friday night saying: "I ...
  23 hours ago

• Chavez blows up bridges to Colombia

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 609
  “It’s almost like somebody’s hitting a piece of flint trying to get a spark going,” said Adam Isacson, Chavez probably wants a war with Columbia in order to help out his Marxist friends, FARC. Bloomberg Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan troops blew up two foot bridges that connect the country with ...
  1 day ago

• Venezuela: Venezuela ups the ante by blowing up footbridges to Colombia

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 490
  FOCUS Information Agency - Venezuelan soldiers on Thursday blew up two makeshift foot bridges that stretched across the border to Colombia in the latest incident to stoke a diplomatic dispute between the Andean neighbors, Reuters reported.Colombias government criticized the destruction of the bridges as an aggression ...
  1 day ago

• Stupid Things From Around The World Of News

  
  Letters to a Dying Dream — Authority: 120
  You Can’t Get Your Drivers License Till You Can Afford A Prius:  Why No I Don’t Give A Shit That You Are 16 Work At Wendy’s And A Prius Costs At Least $23,000!“Michigan’s Legislature is in session and Reps. Bert Johnson, D-Detroit, and Dan Scripps, D-Leland, think the driving school rules aren’t hitting ...
  1 day ago

• Hugo Chavez on LGBT Persecution and Marriage Equality

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 761
  In an interview conducted at the Venice Film Festival in September, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is asked his thoughts on marriage equality. Answers Chavez, in a series of questions: "I believe that... look, each country has its customs, no? At least, inVenezuela, it is not well-regarded, no? But there are ...
  2 days ago

• Chavez appears determined to start a war of distraction with Colombia

  
  Vlad Tepes — Authority: 150
  From STRATFOR : Nov 19 2009 Uniformed men destroyed with dynamite two bridges near Ragonvalia, Colombia, Reuters reported Nov. 19, citing Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva, who said the men were “apparently Venezuelan soldiers.” Ragonvalia Mayor Elmer Gamboa Tulante had previously said that ...
  2 days ago

• Venezuela: Chavez to change GDP measure methodology

  
  Alek Boyd — Authority: 414
  Do readers remember the article by Andres Oppenheimer, in October 2005, where he exposed that Venezuelas Statistics Institute managed to decrease poverty levels, after President Hugo Chavez publicly blasted a report that showed a poverty increase of 11% since his ascent to power in 1999? The article was aptly entitled ...
  2 days ago

• Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez on marriage equality and anti-gay persecution

  
  Blabbeando — Authority: 509
  As rare as it is to have Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez on the record on LGBT rights, I wanted to share this little nugget from an interview given on the spot during his visit to Europe last month. In it, an Italian gossip show host lobbies a series of questions on controversial issues and elicits as clear an ...
  3 days ago

• On The Ground In Mexico: Validating Key Concerns

  
  Risk Watchdog — Authority: 126
  Cautious appears to be the best way to describe sentiment among Mexico City’s executives and bureaucrats at present, or at least that was the feeling Risk Watchdog came away with after spending a week on the ground there. This is not surprising, given the severity of the blow to Mexico’s economy from the recent ...
  3 days ago

• VIDEO Venezuela Franklin Brito’s hunger strike: 15 Minutes on Latin America

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 142
  In today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern, Franklin Brito, biologist, who recommended that farmers use a blight-resistant variety of yam instead of using the toxic pesticides that the mayor of Sucre municipality wanted, is on hunger strike. Here he explains his plight (in Spanish): Meet Franklin Brito Due to my ...
  3 days ago

• Hugo Chavez: Venezuelan Weightloss Guru

  
  Lex Lowther — Authority: 116
  Beyond America, Hugo Chávez has identified a new threat to Venezuela’s socialist revolution: obesity. Chavez has sounded the alarm about his compatriots’ expanding waistlines and called on them to stop eating so damned much and to conserve food joining him in the battle against the bulge. Saying that this ...
  4 days ago

• Why Leftist Hollywood Loves Dictators

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 805
  Someone asked a great question the other day: Why is leftist Hollywood so enamored with dictators and socialism? You would think they would fear having their artistic expression stifled under a Castro or having all their wealth confiscated under Hugo’s socialist or communist regime. It seems counter-intuitive, ...
  4 days ago

• Jane Fonda: Obama Funder Jodie Evans Met With Taliban; Code Pink Gives Terrorists Direct Line to Obama

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  [Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans.  Click here to read earlier articles.] Top Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in Afghanistan on a recent trip there, according to a report by Jane Fonda of a discussion she had ...
  4 days ago

• Venezuela’s corruption level equal to war-torn nations

  
  Alek Boyd — Authority: 414
  The BBC carries today an interesting article about worldwide corruption levels, entitled “ War-torn nations ‘most corrupt ‘” Venezuela is not officially at war, yet, though Hugo Chavez seems keen on taking the country down that path . As far as corruption is concerned Venezuela, has achieved the distinction ...
  4 days ago

• Islamic militants and the drug trade

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 142
  At the Washington Times, Islamic militants boosting role in drug trade The sea lanes of the South Atlantic have become a favored route for drug traffickers carrying narcotics from Latin America to West and North Africa, where al Qaeda-related groups are increasingly involved in transporting the drugs to Europe, ...
  4 days ago

• “Obesity In Venezuela”: President Hugo Chavez Makes First Attempt At “Credibility” By Calling Venezuelen Men “Fat”, Allowing That Women “Sometimes Fill Out”

  
  Four Packs For Oggies — Authority: 125
  The 55-year-old leader said he himself has lost nearly 20 pounds (9 kilograms) by exercising and eating well. But Chavez, who still appears heavier than when he first took office in 1999, acknowledged that he could lose a few more pounds (kilograms). FOUR PACKS WAS GETTING A LITTLE IMPATIENT FOR OTHER “WORLD ...
  4 days ago

• Hugo Chavez invites Papa Fidel to his own house

  
  Along the Malecn — Authority: 515
  Whos house is this anyway? Hugo Chavez over the weekend invited Fidel Castro to an event to be held in the former Cuban presidents own country. The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, ALBA by its Spanish initials, plans to hold a summit in Havana on Dec. 13, the trade blocs fifth anniversary. ...
  5 days ago

Comments about Hugo Chavez