Venezuela

Venezuela is a state in South America. It was the site of Christopher Columbus's first continental landing in South America, after which it soon became a Spanish colony.

The nation won independence  in 1821 under the leadership of its native son, Simon Bolivar and it has been a democracy continuously since 1958.

It ranks high in bloggers' interest primarily because of its populist, anti-American president Hugo Chavez, who was elected in a landslide victory in 1998. He has been the subject of intense media interest, seen generally by rightest commentators as a dangerously undemocratic demagogue, and by progressive commentators generally as a positive force for social change and source of support for the poor.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Venezuela”

• Venezuela destroys 30,000 guns

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  Battling with one of the worlds highest murder rates, Venezuela on Wednesday crushed more than 30,000 guns seized from the streets during police raids this year. Policemen used blow-torches to chop up some of shotguns and pistols. They compacted weapons including home-made pistols into a 5 ton block... "This act forms ...
  11 hours ago

• Venezuela and Colombia

  
  LATICONOMICS — Authority: 505
  Venezuela and Colombia Jaw-jaw war A hundred years of bombast HUGO CHÁVEZ’S belligerent rhetoric trades at a substantial discount. So when on November 8th he announced during his weekly television show that Venezuela’s army should “prepare for war”, apparently with Colombia, this was greeted ...
  13 hours ago

• PREVIEW: The Curious Horsemen of the Modern Apocalypse

  
  Molten Eagle — Authority: 421
  Scholars do not agree on what each horseman described by the Book of Revelation represents. The four ancient horsemen are often referred to as Pestilence , War , Famine , and Death . Some may now be seeing the ancient horsemens modern apocalyptic counterparts (Radical Mosques, Drought, ...
  14 hours ago

• Oh Look, Steering Towards Socialism Made Things Worse

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 440
  Again ! How does that keep on happening? Posted in Capitalism and Economics Tagged: Hugo Chavez, Socialism, Venezuela
  15 hours ago

• Chavista Oficialista Astroturf Protest US-Columbian Bases

  
  FJ's South of the Border Blog — Authority: 131
  Source . [IMG: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4Qi4UCFv4qE/Sv20Jt9iVVI/AAAAAAAAEmw/-E97NOxXEl4/s400/agencia2_2009-11-13_1258138071_orig.jpg][IMG: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4Qi4UCFv4qE/Sv20KFIlcdI/AAAAAAAAEnA/bvxFXgT2gRA/s400/agencia2_2009-11-13_1258138758_orig.jpg][IMG: ...
  17 hours ago

• Also playing this weekend: Araya

  
  Hot Splice — Authority: 123
  With all the excitement surrounding Argentine director Lisandro Alonso’s visit to Northwest Film Forum, it might be easy to forget that another film from Latin America is also playing this week. Araya is a documentary/tone poem about Venezuelan fishermen and salt workers in 1959. From the description: The ...
  18 hours ago

• INTERVIEW - Venezuela would be "mad" to fight Colombia

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 714
  Source: Reuters * Governor of border state blames Chavez for crisis * Urges mediation of Latin American neighbors * Says thousands of jobs lost from drop in trade By Andrew Cawthorne SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela ...
  19 hours ago

• Hugos Shining New Socialist City on the Hill

  
  FJ's South of the Border Blog — Authority: 131
  The Venezuelan Legislature yesterday authorized a second installment of Bs. 300 million for construction of the first "new socialist city" to house government offices for 8 government departments under the new defense and security plan. The city will be call "Caribean City". Source . I wonder who his architect ...
  20 hours ago

• Chávez wags the dog?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  Although tensions between Colombia and Venezuela have flared up repeatedly in recent years, they appeared to approach boiling point when Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez ordered his country’s military to prepare for war against its neighbor on Sunday.  While Chávez has long accused Colombian President Álvaro ...
  20 hours ago

• A few minutes with Dudamel

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 509
  Here’s Venezuelan-born conductor Gustavo Dudamel, chatting with Jian Ghomeshi on Q on CBC Radio One . Dudamel talks about his musical education in Venezuela, and his new gig with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, among other topics. Listen to the complete show (If you choose this option, check out the intense, ...
  20 hours ago

• Talk examines U.S.-Venezuela relations

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 463
  Event: Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United States, will discuss "U.S.-Venezuela Relations and a New Era for the Americas." The event is co-sponsored by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) and the Department of Government at The ...
  21 hours ago

• Shorter Question Everything

  
  Question Everything — Authority: 440
  PalestinePalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will accept the recommendation of independent election experts on Thursday to postpone the vote he had scheduled for January, senior officials said. The Central Election Commission said it had advised Abbas to put off the election since the rival Hamas Islamist group ruling ...
  22 hours ago

• Is The Locomotive Of “Chavismo” Loosing Steam In Venezuela?

  
  QandO — Authority: 142
  G allup’s latest poll says it is: President Hugo Chavez’s popularity among Venezuelans has waned in recent years. Less than half of Venezuelans (47%) in August 2009 said they approved of Chavez’ job performance — down from 61% in late 2006 when he was elected to a second six-year term. That’s not a ...
  23 hours ago

• Rattler Alumni Report: Winter League Games of November 12, 2009

  
  Rattler Radio — Authority: 438
  Arizona Fall League @Surprise 8, Javelinas 6 Javs: Lorenzo Cain (09): 0-for-4 Joe Dunigan (09): 1-for-4 Carlos Triunfel (07): 3-for-4, RUN Anthony Varvaro (07): 2.1IP, H, R, 2K Phillippe Aumont (08): 2IP, 2H, R, 4K Liga Venezuela Beisbol Profesional @Lara 5, La Guaira 2 Lara: Michael Saunders ...
  23 hours ago

• Chavez Sort-of Backtracks on War Statements

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 141
  My latest article, Chavez Sort-of Backtracks on War Statements is up at Real Clear World. Please read it and leave a comment.
  1 day ago

• Greg Palast on Antiwar Radio: Latin America, Plan Columbia and Big Oil

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 554
  with Greg PalastFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.gregpalast.comNovember 13, 2009Investigative reporter Greg Palast discusses the domestic political motives behind the war posturing of Venezuela and Columbia, Obama’s embrace and expansion of Plan Columbia, the demonization of Hugo Chavez and Ecuador’s escape from ...
  1 day ago

• a hard line against our southern friends

  
  n e u f n e u f — Authority: 443
  [click image] Bushs Third Term [Yes, Im ignoring the bullshit about the Iran-operated terrorist-highrise and mosques. I cant modulate my animosity toward the war pigs well enough to endure more than the briefest glance yet.]
  1 day ago

• George Ciccariello-Maher on Venezuela

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 588
  I actually lived in Caracas for 3 months a couple years ago, and have on my screen in front of me (literally) a 25,000 word (coruscatingly intelligent) essay on rural mobilization in Bolivarian Venezuela. The video above is George Ciccariello-Maher, the English-language social historian of Bolivarian Venezuela. He’s ...
  1 day ago

• Don’t sing for Venezuela

  
  University Blog — Authority: 474
  I confess that I have a habit (unknown to most) of singing in the shower. Well come on, these are hard times, and a little song cheers me up and doesn’t do any harm. Or does it? Apparently President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has, in a televised cabinet meeting, told the people not to sing while showering. And why? ...
  1 day ago

• Displacement’s Call for Crowdsourcing

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  The increasing severity of global displacement creates the need for a responsive use of the world’s advancing digital technologies. The tangle of humanitarian crisis might be severely truncated if crowdsourcing , like that of Ushahidi , which developers created in the immediate wake of 2008’s Kenyan electoral ...
  1 day ago

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