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”

• What have you done for me lately?

  
  Plan Colombia and Beyond — Authority: 120
  In a much-commented column in Sunday’s edition of El Tiempo , Colombia’s most-circulated newspaper, Enrique Santos, the paper’s editor, argues that the United States is “abandoning” Colombia amid worsening tensions with Venezuela. If the mute behavior of a bloc [UNASUR] to which Colombia belongs is ...
  8 hours ago

• The visiting Ahmadinejad Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 143
  Welcome to the Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad started his tour of South America by accepting Lula’s invitation to Brazil , which was first scheduled for last May but was postponed after public outcry. Protestors were at the airport Around 200 Iranian businessmen accompanied ...
  13 hours ago

• I’m sorry but Venezuela is pathetic…

  
  In2theFray — Authority: 124
  No disrespect to the citizens per se. you’ve got enough on your plate just trying to live. Whether you’re a red shirt wearing flag waving idiot or a silver spoon opposition oligarch or anything in between it just doesn’t matter.The leaders (hahahahaha) however are just too freaking hilarious for words.The ...
  13 hours ago

• Why are we in Colombia?

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 592
  There has been a pretty steady drumbeat of news coming out of Latin America recently surrounding the possibility of war between Venezuela and Colombia. In most of this media coverage, the blame here has been placed pretty squarely on Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s president, who is portrayed as a possible warmonger ...
  17 hours ago

• Venezuela and Colombia

  
  LATICONOMICS — Authority: 458
  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 ...
  19 hours ago

• Rattler Alumni Report: Winter League games of November 22, 2009

  
  Rattler Radio — Authority: 438
  Liga Venezuela Beisbol Profesional Lara 6 @ Aragua 0 Lara: Oswaldo Navarro (05): 2-for-4, RUN Luis Valbuena (06): 0-for-3 Jose Escalona (08): .1IP, 0H, 0R, K Ivan Blanco (05): .1IP, 0H, 0R, 2BB Juan Ovalles (04): IP, H, 0R, K @Magallanes 5, Margarita 2 Magallanes: Wladimir Balentien (04): ...
  20 hours ago

• Hugo Chavez’s Strange Speech

  
  Matthew Yglesias — Authority: 804
  I think an underrated success of the Obama administration has been the way he pulled us back from the brink of a pointless Cold War dynamic the Bush administration had landed us in in South America. And he did it pretty easily—basically just resolving to stay out of any wars of words with Hugo Chavez, shake hands, ...
  20 hours ago

• Fidel Castro: The Bolivarian Revolution and Peace

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  By Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuba.cu , November 20, 2009 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 ...
  22 hours ago

• maoism meets chavismo? a review of badiou’s workshop ‘subject and appearance’

  
  the commune — Authority: 136
  by Nathan Coombs Nowadays it is hard to find many examples of academic leftism crossing paths with real left wing politics. One could even argue that the former might have a negative effect on the latter – the UK is, after all, home to one of the strongest left wing publishing empires and conference circuits in ...
  22 hours ago

• Colombian military ‘on maximum alert’

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 133
  COLOMBIA warned overnight that its forces were on “maximum alert” and were prepared to defend against any attack, amid rising tensions with neighbouring Venezuela. Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva issued the warning after a meeting of the country’s national security council in Arauca, a city on the ...
  23 hours ago

• The flight to Teheran and the flight to madness

  
  Venezuela and Europe — Authority: 417
  1 The weekly rant Hugo recently declared his support for terrorist Carlos the Jackal, Ahmadinejad and Mugabe and he expressed his belief Idi Amin of Uganda may have not been so bad as the West says. The Guardians journalist Rory Carrol and bloggers Quico and Daniel already reported on that. Their articles ...
  1 day ago

• 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
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• Cuban govt delegation met with Chavez

  
  C U B A P O L I D A T A — Authority: 123
  A delegation of high-ranking Cuban government officials met Sunday with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavéz at the hall of the Council of Ministers in Miraflores Palace to discuss next month’s ALBA summit in Cuba, informs the Venezuelan Ministry of Communication and Information.The Cuban delegation was led by Ricardo ...
  1 day ago

• Miss Earth 2009 Winners!

  
  Joys in Life — Authority: 425
  I am suppose to check out the free life insurance quote but i remembered that last night was the Miss Earth 2009 Pageant. My hopes are high because my country’s candidate is another Miss Earth Philippines winnable. I don’t have TV in my quarters but thanks to the internet i am able to browsed online who were ...
  1 day ago

• Venezuelas Hugo Chavez defends "Carlos the Jackal" throws in His Lot With Mugabe and Ahmadinejad

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 440
  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defended jailed killer "Carlos the Jackal" and several world leaders he says are wrongly considered "bad guys".In a speech to international socialist politicians, Mr Chavez said "Carlos", a Venezuelan, was not a terrorist but a key "revoluti …
  1 day ago

• Colombian military ‘on maximum alert’

  
  NWOTruth — Authority: 484
  COLOMBIA warned overnight that its forces were on “maximum alert” and were prepared to defend against any attack, amid rising tensions with neighbouring Venezuela. Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva issued the warning after a meeting of the country’s national security council in Arauca, a city on the ...
  1 day 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 ...
  1 day ago

• Valbuena!

  
  Rattler Radio — Authority: 438
  Looking back at Laras win on Friday night in Liga Venezuela Beisbol Profesional. Luis Valbuena (06) had the game-winning hit....no make that the game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth. Luis Valbuena con el guante y el bate Luis Valbuena sacó del sombrero toda la magia de su talento y Cardenales dejó ...
  1 day ago

• Rattler Alumni Report: Winter League Games of November 21, 2009

  
  Rattler Radio — Authority: 438
  Liga Venezuela Beisbol Profesional Margartia 7 @ Aragua 1 Margarita: Tim Harikkala (Foxes, 94): 6IP, 3H, 0R, K, WIN #1 Magallanes 9 @Lara 6 Magallanes: Wladimir Balentien (04): pinch hitter, 0-for-1 Lara: Oswaldo Navarro (05): 2-for-5, RUN, RBI Luis Valbuena (06): 4-for-5, RUN, 2RBI Liga de ...
  1 day ago

• Shorter Question Everything

  
  Question Everything — Authority: 442
  CubaA retired US state department official and his wife have admitted spying for Cuba for nearly three decades. The former official, Walter Kendall Myers, 72, had access to top-secret government information. Under a plea deal, Mr Myers will spend the rest of his life in jail while wife Gwendolyn, 71, will serve a term ...
  1 day ago

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