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VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA: Paramilitaries Rule Border Area
By Humberto Marquez SAN ANTONIO DEL TACHIRA, Venezuela - "We're second-class citizens, victims of a war that hasn't broken out," said Jose Duque from behind the wheel of a car carrying passengers from San Cristobal, in southwestern Venezuela, to the border with the northeastern region of Colombia, near the city of Cucuta. Comment?
El Sistema: when music cuts crime and saves lives
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Perhaps it has something to do with its name after all "El Sistema" does sound a bit like some extremist political movement from the 1930s. Comment?
Salsa singer Oscar D'Leon recovering from heart attack in Venezuela
Internationally renowned salsa singer Oscar D'Leon is recovering from a heart attack he suffered during a visit to Venezuela. Comment?
11:01 Venezuela-China Relat...
Caracas, Dec 22 Venezuela and China will strengthen bilateral relations on Tuesday with the signing of agreements on energy, economy, politics, and technology. Comment?
Venezuela: Campaign to Revoke Obama s Nobel
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Caracas, Dec 22 The United Socialist Party of Venezuela shapes from Tuesday a world campaign to claim the revocation of the Nobel Peace Prize that was bestowed upon Barack Obama because he is considered to be a warmonger. Comment?
BBC has trouble getting signal out in Iran
St Petersburg News.Net Tuesday 22nd December, 2009 The BBC has claimed that its Persian television signal was being jammed following the airing stories on the death of Iran's top dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri. Comment?
Mark G. Garis, 72, longtime educator
... travel and hosting international visitors. They spent summers volunteering at an international school in Caracas, Venezuela. In 2002, Dr. Garis served as acting principal at the school at a time of political unrest in Venezuela, his son Jeffrey ... Comment?
Colombia to Chavez: Maybe 'spy plane' was Santa
President Hugo Chavez listens to a speech at a fuel distribution plant located 93 miles east of Caracas December 27, 2002 in Carenero, Venezuela. Comment?
US detains fugitive Venezuelan banker whose release from jail angered
U.S. immigration officials have stopped a fugitive banker whose release from jail in Venezuela enraged President Hugo Chavez and led to controversial corruption charges against a judge. Comment?
Daniela s unwilling hunger strike
Hunger strike has been a fashionable way to protest, from the students in front of the OAS offices in Caracas to the Saharoui activist in Lanzarote. Comment?
Singer Oscar D'Leon recovers from heart attack
A cardiologist at a private health clinic in the capital city of Caracas says the 67-year-old Venezuelan native sought medical attention after suffering the attack Sunday. Comment?
Leon - Salsa's D'Leon Suffers Heart Attack
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Caption: Leon attends the High Times Magazine '8th Annual Stony Awards' held at Malibu Inn. Comment?
HIV/AIDS among top 2009 * Doctors Without Borders says poor funding threatens to leave 10 million infected people without treatment in developing world NEW YORK: Dwindling funding for HIV/AIDS threatens to leave an estimated 10 million infected people without treatment in the developing world, making it one of... Chavez alleges incursion by US spy ... Comment?
US spy plane violates airspace: Chavez
The firebrand leftist leader said yesterday that a drone with 'Yankee technology used in Colombia' flew over a Venezuelan military base a 'few days ago,' taking photographs before disappearing. Comment?
Venezuela launches national police
Polls show the high crime rate is the population's main concern in the oil exporting nation, where about 14,000 people are murdered each year. Comment?
16:17 Venezuela Likely to P...
Caracas, Dec 21 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned about placing Tachira state police in administration, if that corps, subordinated to opposition governor Cesar Perez, insists on acting on the fringes of the law. Comment?
Venezuela launches new state-run bank, brings together 3 shut down in scandal
A bank customer leaves a branch of the new state-run bank Banco Bicentenario in Caracas, Monday, Dec. Comment?
Hugo Chavez renames Angel Falls
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He said the landmark should revert to its indigenous name Kerepakupai Meru, meaning "waterfall of the deepest place" -instead of commemorating the US pilot who spotted it in 1933. Comment?
An interview with Eva Golinger about Ch vez's Venezuela
Eva Golinger is a Venezuelan-American attorney from New York living in Caracas, Venezuela since 2005 and author of 'The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela' , 'Bush vs. Comment?
Santa Elena - Week 1 - Santa Elena de Uairen, Guayana Highlands, Venezuela
Santa Elena de Uairen , Guayana Highlands , Venezuela Sunday, December 20, 2009 After my small exploration of the Caracas suburbs, I did make it back to Terminal de Oriente but only after an hour of looking for the appropriate bus. Comment?