Venezuela and Africa: Another failed approach.

Caracas, Venezuela, 31 August 2008. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will shortly depart to South Africa to enhance bilateral relations during a two day official visit.  This is not his first visit to an...

OAS condemns Venezuelan Human Right record

Caracas, Venezuela, 5 April, 2008. The Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States (OAS) published it annual report condemning Venezuela. The...

FARC and France disagree over Ingrid Betancourt (updated)

Caracas, Venezuela, 4 April 2008. A recent "European" initiative to have Colombian French Ingrid Betancourt released seems to have failed badly. It what now appears to have been a unilateral French...

Chavez closes Venezuelan Embassy in Colombia (Updated VII)

Caracas, 2 March 2008. During televised show Aló Presidente, Venezuelan Head of State, Hugo Chávez Frías, ordered the immediate closure of the Embassy in Colombia. After informing on the incursion of the...

Venezuela: Four FARC hostages to be released this week (Updated II)

Caracas, Venezuela, 25 Februay 2008. During a televised interview, Venezuelan Home Minister and Hostages negotiator, Ramón Rodríguez Chacín, stated four FARC hostages -Gloria Polanco de Lozada, Luis Eladio...

OAS: Rice/Maduro duel

On June 4, American State Secretary Condoleezza Rice attended the XXXVII General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) at Panama. During her intervention, State Secretary Rice brought...

Colombia and US plan ambush on Venezuela?

Caracas, Venezuela. Sunday morning, former Vice President of Venezuela and journalist José Vicente Rangel said Colombia and US were planning an ambush to undermine Venezuela’s stability. On his weekly TV show,...

Baruch Ivcher on RCTV

Caracas, Venezuela. Today, Israeli-born media owner Baruch Ivcher criticised Venezuelan government for not renewing a broadcasting licence of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) as off May 28th.  He deemed it as a violation of press freedom and called for international...

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