Today, the leader of Social National Unity Party (NUP), Senator Carlos Garcia Orjuela, was arrested in relation to cases involving right wing paramilitaries. NUP enjoys the majority of seat at Colombian Parliament. Garcia is closely related to President Alavaro...
Caracas, Venezuela, 25 July, 2008. On Thursday, the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly issed a 444 article draft constitution that will be send for approval by a National Referendum on 28 September...
Caracas, Venezuela, 25 July 2008, Today, King of Spain Juan Carlos met Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at Marivent Royal Palace at Mallorca. This is the first time they met after the XVII Ibero American...
Updates: On 24 July 2008, Venezuelan President met his Portuguese counterpart, Aníbal Cavaco Silva. Chavez also attended a protocol ceremony to lay wreath on the statute of Simon Bolivar in Lisbon as Venezuela...
After visiting Moscow, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on Belarus to increase oil cooperation. President Chavez promised counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that Venezuela "will supply Minsk with its oil...
Caracas, Venezuela, 23July 2008. On Tuesday 22 July 2008, a provisional Constitutional Law magistrate, Silvia Salame, ordered the suspension of the recall referendum due on 10 August 2008. Salame ruled the suspension to safeguard jurisprudence and allow her to...
Today, Venezuela and Russia gave a more tangible meaning to their strategic partnership during the visit of President Hugo Chavez. Four new deals on oil and gas were signed to further energy security plans....
Caracas, Venezuela, 20 July 2008. Today, thousands of Colombians have gathered all over the world to celebrate their independence day. Bogotá Bolivar Square has been packed with demonstrators. Most notably, French...
Updates: On 20 July 2008, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe announced his country would join the Security Council of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). This council was proposed by Venezuela and Brazil to draft a defence policy and...
Caracas, Venezuela, 19 July 2008. Today, Nicaraguan government celebrates the 29th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. President Daniel Ortega organized a meeting of regional Latin American leader for the...
Updates: "Morales, Lula and Chavez sign agreements to build roads of integrationRiberalta (Beni), July 18 (ABI).- Presidents of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva; Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias and Bolivia,...
Today, Haitian deputies proposed 61 year old economist Michele Pierre Louis as Prime Minister. She is the chief of FOKAL, Haiti's Educational and Cultural Foundation. Pierre Louis was born at Jeremie, Southern Haiti,...
According to official VTV, President Chavez will start his tour by meeting with the Bolivian and Brazilian Heads of State, Evo Morales and Lula da Silva, tomorrow at Bolivia. They will sign a cooperation agreement on the Amazon. " Venezuela's Chavez to begin 6-nation tour...
Amnesty International (AI) has asked the Venezuelan government to protect the Human Rights of locally abused women. Sadly, AI figures show that a rather big number of cases go unpunished or unresolved. The government has not made any comment of the AI allegations...
Some analysts have wondered whether Venezuela-US bilateral relations would improve under a Barak Obama presidency. A recent article by Christian Science Monitor expressed such dull conclusion. However, Chavez himself has rejected any change in his critical stand against...