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julio 30, 2009
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Hugo Chavez freezes ties with Colombia for the third time over FARC

The first time Hugo Chavez froze relations with Venezuela’s second largest commercial partner (Colombia that is, on January 2005), it was due to the capture of one of FARC’s leaders Rodrigo Granda, while attending in…

julio 21, 2009
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Smartmatic does the Philippines

One of the reasons I have stopped blogging regularly about Venezuela is that everything that I felt I needed to expose I have already. Be it Eva Golinger lies about tax status, credentials or relations…

julio 9, 2009
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An interview with Carlos Cruz Diez

Some weeks ago I had the pleasure of going to a private exhibition of Venezuelan op-art supremo Carlos Cruz Diez. The encounter was all the more meaningful for me, for I had just handed in…

junio 28, 2009
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Hugo Chavez says he will oust those behind Coup in Honduras

South America’s surreal political life does not get any better than this: a man who was caught leading a coup d’etat in 1992 in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez that is, comes on TV today and has…

junio 19, 2009
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Creado movimiento Rescate Nacional | Venergia.org

Grupos de izquierda forman Movimiento Rescate NacionalPPP / El Universal (Venezuela) – 19/06/09 La diputada Pastora Medina, el dirigente sindical Orlando Chirino, el experto petrolero Víctor Poleo, el ex guerrillero Douglas Bravo. Todos ellos lideran el…

mayo 29, 2009
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The Venezuelanisation of British politics

It seems so eerily familiar, this business of lambasting politicians. We Venezuelans have been listening to it, literally nonstop, from our resident caudillo for the last 11 years. Anti politics as a form of doing…

mayo 27, 2009
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Oslo Freedom Forum’s imagined community

In the presence of remarkable individuals, who were sharing with the Oslo Freedom Forum’s audience harrowing testimonies of survival, the resilience of human dignity and strength of character in conditions beyond hope, I was thinking:…

mayo 21, 2009
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Free Aung San Suu Kyi

We, the undersigned participants of the Oslo Freedom Forum,categorically condemn the detention of Nobel Laureate Aung San SuuKyi. We condemn the unjustified charges raised against her by theBurmese military dictatorship, which has imprisoned and charged…

mayo 8, 2009
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European Parliament condemns Political persecution and authoritarianism in Venezuela

In the light of the intimidation and harassment of a number of opposition figures in Venezuela, including Manuel Rosales, the elected mayor of the city of Maracaibo, Parliament expresses its «profound concern at the deterioration…

abril 25, 2009
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Poland ‘to ban’ Che Guevara image

The iconic image of Che Guevara found adorning students’ walls and t-shirts across the world could be banned in Poland under a government proposal to outlaw materials that incite «fascism and totalitarian systems». By Matthew…

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