Posts tagged as: Venezuela

Chavez proposes forming separate oil cartel

Russian-Venezuelan "techno-military" cooperation

Relations between members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) appear to be suffering as a result of the Arab Spring and unilateral decisions to increase production taken by members of the Gulf Cooperation Council. This week Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez told visiting Russian vice minister Igor Sechin and energy minister Sergei Shmatko that [...]

Poll shows popularity boost for Hugo Chavez

Look who's more popular than Obama

The battle that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is waging against cancer appears to be bearing political fruit, according to a new poll that shows his approval rating climbing to 58.9% among that nation’s voters in September. Local survey firm Datanalisis said this week that those figures represent a 10% climb from his popularity in July [...]

Chavez cancer becomes an election issue

Has chemo weakened Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez?

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday accused his opposition of using his cancer treatment to depict him as incapable of governing, in order to gain an advantage in next year’s presidential election. They are trying “to generate uncertainty in the country and take advantage of my illness from the political point of view,” he said [...]

Ahmadinejad Venezuela visit postponed

Ahmadinejad visit cancelled "for health reasons"

The Venezuelan government announced Friday that a planned visit from Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been suspended while president Hugo Chavez recovers his “full health” after recent cancer treatment. Chavez, who returned from his fourth and last chemotherapy session in Cuba on Thursday, last week announced the visit would follow Ahmadinejad’s visit to the UN [...]

Venezuela accuses DEA of protecting drug cartels.

Venezuelan chancellor Nicolás Maduro gave assurances this week that Venezuela has made effective progress against drug trafficking since breaking relations with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). “The DEA functioned in Venezuela as they function in many other countries:  as a cartel.  They protected the drug cartels”, he said.  ”Once we left them behind, [...]

During Putin´s visit to Chavez, Russia sell tanks and anti-aircraft missile systems to Venezuela. U.S.A. is worried.

Russia will sell weapons worth around $5 billion to Venezuela, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said, after returning to  Moscow from a recent trip to Caracas where he met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The figure includes a $2.2 billion loan Moscow offered to Caracas, UPI reports.  Putin  noted the orders would be distributed among 13 [...]

Arms Race in The Americas.

  In recent weeks, much has been written in the media about the purchase of armaments and military technology by some South American countries like Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela. On the subject of the arms race in our subcontinent, I would like to make a few comments, some of them are strictly personal opinions [...]

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