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Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:16 AM

Venezuela

Type: Country
Name: Venezuela
population: 24,847,270
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 12 hours ago - 24 Documents
COLOMBIA - VENEZUELA: Bogota says troops on 'maximum alert'
Colombia has put its forces on maximum alert after what it described as unprovoked aggressions by Venezuela along the border between the two countries. On Wednesday, Venezuelan troops blew up two cross-border pedestrian bridges.AFP - Colombia warned Friday ... [France24 - 12 hours ago]
Entities: Colombia, Venezuela, Bogota
First Reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 6 Documents
International Criminal Police Organization - Click to view 360-page
International Criminal Police Organization
Venezuela seizes Colombia-linked paramilitary chief
Venezuelan police captured a leader of a Colombia-linked paramilitary force, the interior minister announced Saturday amid sky-high military tensions between the South American neighbors.Magaly Janeth Moreno Vega was captured Thursday by Venezuelan police ... [France24 - Americas - 3 hours ago]
First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Politics)
Venezuela's unemployment at 8.1 percent
Even though unemployment has soared 1.4 percent in the last 12 months, government sources report a stable labor marketEconomyVenezuela's unemployment rate climbed in October to 8.1 percent. This means that 1.070,218 people were unemployed last month.Official ... [El Universal - 5 hours ago]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 5 Documents
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FARC
Venezuela blows up two foot bridges to Colombia (Reuters)
SAN ANTONIO, Venezuela (Reuters) - 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.Colombia's government ... [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 17 hours ago - 3 Documents
Venezuela takes over four private banks
Venezuelan authorities have seized control of four small private banks because of 'recurrent irregularities' in their operations, Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez said Friday.He said regulators and the Central Bank, or BCV, decreed the 'open-door intervention' ... [RBC Dain Rauscher - 17 hours ago]
First Reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Venezuela the most corrupt country in Latin America, TI says
PoliticsVenezuela is one of the world's most corrupt countries and the worst in Latin America after being ranked 162nd. By contrast, Chile and Uruguay are considered role models, since both are ranked 25th, followed by Costa Rica (43rd) and Cuba (61st), ... [El Universal - 5 hours ago]
First Reported 16 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 2 Documents
Chávez’s Real Troubles
And they aren’t Colombia, decade’s old foot bridges, or US invasion fantasies.1  They are, more to the point, the internal management of Venezuela’s infrastructure and the mismanagement of its oil wealth.  Via the LAT:  Outages dim Chavez popularity: Power ... [PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts - 7 hours ago]
First Reported 8 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 4 Documents
The Jackal a revolutionary, says Chavez
CARACAS: Hugo Chavez has defended the alleged the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was an important “revolutionary fighter” who supported the cause of the Palestinians.The Venezuelan president praised Carlos — whose real name is Ilich ... [Times of India - 1 hour ago]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents
Colombia: Tensions and ‘Winds of War' with Venezuela
Tensions have been escalating in the last few weeks between Colombia and Venezuela, two neighboring countries which already have strained relations. In mid-October, 8 Colombians were kidnapped and murdered execution-style after playing an amateur football ... [Global Voices Online - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)
Drought Caused By El Nino Wreaks Havoc Across Latin America
El Nino has caused devastating drought damage across Latin America this year, resulting in a massive food crisis in Guatemala and water cuts in Venezuela, AFP reported.An El Nino, which is an occasional seasonal warming of central and eastern Pacific ... [Red Orbit - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
US Hopes to See More Anti-Drug Efforts in Venezuela
U.S. and Latin American officials gathered in Miami to seek new resources to use against the expansion of drug trafficking and drug abuse.Share This"If a drug passes through a country or is produced in a country, some bleeds off there because not everybody ... [VOA News - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet: Foreign Affairs Roundup
The Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Increased Tension Over Iran's Program SI Analysis: After an IAEA report suggests that Iran's recently discovered nuclear site near Qom is more suited to developing nuclear weapons than ... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/20/2009]

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...a speech to international socialist politicians, Mr Chavez said "Carlos", a Venezuelan, was not a terrorist but a key "revolutionary fighter".... "Mr Chavez also hailed Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin."
Chávez declaims [Oliver Kamm - 1 hour ago]
"The government of President Chávez has been the most difficult to understand. There are Latin American presidents such as Evo Morales in Bolivia or Rafael Correa in Ecuador, who implement policies that might not the best for the their countries but analysts can understand their strategies. However, Venezuela's behavior is erratic as we have seen with nationalizations" Maurer said
Bad news for Venezuela's economy [El Universal - 5 hours ago]
...Quick Access to: 04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned I curse you one thousand some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chvez has uttered to refer to the US government...
Private TV network Globovisión under fire [El Universal - 5 hours ago]

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Thousands throng rival Nicaragua rallies [The Age - 45 mins ago]
Tens of thousands rally in Nicaragua [NEWS.com.au - 46 mins ago]
The Jackal a revolutionary, says Chavez [Times of India - 1 hour ago]
Suspected Albanian Mob Boss Evades Dragnet [Americas Most Wanted - 2 hours ago]
Thousands throng rival Nicaraguan rallies, Orte... [AFP via Yahoo! - 2 hours ago]
Baroness Ashton: EU couldnt make it up [Times Online - 2 hours ago]
Iran: Ahmadinejad to begin South American visit [ADN Kronos International - 2 hours ago]
Venezuela aims to annul patents for antibiotic [Research & Development - 2 hours ago]
Chavez claims 'Carlos the Jackal' has had a bad... [BBC - 2 hours ago]
River Blindness (Onchocerciasis) Reduced By Nea... [Zibb - 2 hours ago]
Chavez defends Mugabe, Jackal [News24.com - 3 hours ago]
Venezuela seizes Colombia-linked paramilitary c... [France24 - Americas - 3 hours ago]
Venezuela seizes Colombia-linked paramilitary c... [France24 - Africa - 3 hours ago]
Venezuela seizes Colombia-linked paramilitary c... [France24 - Middle East - 3 hours ago]
Venezuela seizes Colombia-linked paramilitary c... [France24 - europe - 3 hours ago]
Venezuela seizes Colombia-linked paramilitary c... [France24 - Science - 3 hours ago]
Venezuela seizes Colombia-linked paramilitary c... [France24 - Business - 3 hours ago]
Transat Jacques Vabre - Leading trio gain speed... [SailWorld.com - 3 hours ago]
El Nino intensifies Latin America drought [PhysOrg.com - 3 hours ago]
Cuban government battling to provide electricity [Uzbekistan News - 4 hours ago]
Ambassador visits Sport Ministry [Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday - 4 hours ago]
Bad news for Venezuela's economy [El Universal - 5 hours ago]
Private TV network Globovisión under fire [El Universal - 5 hours ago]
Venezuela the most corrupt country in Latin Ame... [El Universal - 5 hours ago]
Argentina's Kirchner rejects pressure on her fr... [El Universal - 5 hours ago]
Govn't intervenes four small private banks [El Universal - 5 hours ago]
Venezuela's unemployment at 8.1 percent [El Universal - 5 hours ago]
Hugo Chavez Praises Terrorist Carlos the Jackal [NewsMax.com - 8 hours ago]
War Made Easy [Politics.ie - 11 hours ago]
Dominican Republic, Haiti main drug bridge to U... [Dominican Today - 11 hours ago]
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In Focus
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Hugo Chávez, Alvaro Uribe, Sean Penn, [more]
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Petróleos de Venezuela SA, Repsol YPF SA, Gazprom OAO, [more]
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Mercosur, OPEC, FARC, [more]
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Military/Armed Forces, Nationalism, Indictment, [more]
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Caracas, Bogota, Maracaibo, [more]
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Colombia, Iran, United States, [more]
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Internet & IT, Oil, Political Meetings, [more]
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Energy, Utilities, IT, [more]
El Universal, Xinhua News Agency, AFP via Yahoo!, [more]
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Chávez declaims [Oliver Kamm - 1 hour ago]
Among the reasons that someleft-wing journali ... including me, concluded that Ken Livingstone was unfit to be Mayor of a great, cosmopolitan capital city was his ...
Chávez’s Real Troubles [PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts - 7 hours ago]
And they aren’t Colombia, decade’s old foot bridges, or US invasion fantasies.1  They are, more to the point, the internal management of Venezuela’s infrastructure ...
UPDATE 3-Colombia says will not be provoked by ... [Economy-Finance - 8 hours ago]
* Chavez’s insults, dynamited bridges raise tensions * Colombian military chiefs meet, no troop build-up seen * Chavez says U.S. preparing for war in Latin ...
Mahmoud Abbas in Brazil: The Rise of Jew Hatred... [Atlas Shrugs - 9 hours ago]
As South America continues to head South,  David Bor writes me with this deeply disturbing update from Brazil. David writes: Yesterday,Friday (11-20) while receiving ...
Drumbeat: November 21, 2009 [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our ... - 10 hours ago]
Permafrost thaw threatens Russia oil and gas complex: study MOSCOW (AFP) – Thawing permafrost caused by global warming is costing Russian energy firms billions ...
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Audio/Video

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U.S. is trying to solidify control over Latin A... [Russia Today - YouTube - 11/10/2009]
Chavez, troops to prepare for war [Reuters Video: Top News - 11/09/2009]
Venezuela blocks Colombia border [Reuters - YouTube - 11/04/2009]
Venezuela blocks Colombia border [Reuters Video: Top News - 11/04/2009]
U.S. and Colombia vs. Venezuela? [Russia Today - YouTube - 10/30/2009]
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