CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for regulation of the Internet on Saturday while demanding authorities crack down on a critical news Web site that he accused of spreading false information. In a televised speech, Chavez said: "The Internet can't be something free where anything can be done and said. No, every country has to impose its rules and regulations," Chavez said.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
You can add Sean Penn to the long list of people who have been called out by Ozzie Guillen. The outspoken White Sox manager called Penn a "payaso" (clown) and "izquierdista estupido" (stupid leftist) on Twitter Friday for his praise of controversial Venezuela President Hugo Chavez. "Oh my God, Sean Penn defended our President Hugo Chavez," Guillen, a Venezuela native, tweeted. "That's easy when you [don't] live in Venezuela and have money. LOL...shame on [you]." Penn appeared on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" last week and was asked why he continues to defend Chavez. "Every day this elected leader...
Friday, February 26, 2010
President Hugo Chavez has said Venezuela will withdraw from the top human rights body in the Western Hemisphere, calling it a “mafia” and its leader “excrement” after a report criticizing his record. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released a scathing 300-page report on Wednesday that says freedom of expression and the right to peaceful protest had been curtailed. The group, part of the Organisation of American States, said “political intolerance” prevails in the South American country, a major supplier of oil to the United States... In a conference with foreign journalists, Chavez read out loud a letter written by...
Sunday, February 21, 2010
CARACAS, Venezuela (Associated Press) -- President Hugo Chavez accused his adversaries on Sunday of sabotaging Venezuela's electricity grid as part of a broader plan aimed at bringing about the system's collapse _ and his downfall. Chavez said authorities must be "on the alert" and apprehend anyone who cuts electricity cables connected to the grid. Such sabotage has caused power failures in some regions and exacerbated the effects of severe energy shortages, he said. "Be on the lookout! Patrols must be carried out to capture the saboteurs because those responsible must be caught and put in prison," Chavez said during his...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
It is an amazing piece of video. A leader of a country with unchecked power publicly stealing private property. Even Stalin and Mao were subtle enough not to be filmed publicly stealing (aka "nationalizing" or "expropriating"). However, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is so clueless that he has allowed himself to be filmed thugishly pointing at various buildings in central Caracas and pronouncing "Expropriate it!" Truly historic video...and yet nothing seen of it on the broadcast networks. An article by Alonso Fernandez in the Latin American Herald Tribune provides the back story about what is happening in the video: CARACAS –...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Chavez Furiously Backtracking As Venezuela Petro-Economy Deteriorates Gus Lubin Jan. 26, 2010, 3:11 PM In anticipation of Thursday's Carabobo oil field auction, outspoken Marxist president Hugo Chavez quietly pleaded for foreign investment. ""Investment and experience from foreign oil firms is necessary in Venezuela. We need it," Chavez said, according to Dow Jones. The statement is a serious turnaround for a government that has nationalized dozens of foreign oil companies in recent years. But they 'need' foreign investment because mismanagement is turning the country into just another failed petro-state. This is also the second instance of Chavez backtracking today.[snip]
Sunday, January 24, 2010
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan cable television providers stopped transmitting a channel critical of President Hugo Chavez on Sunday, after the government cited incompliance with new regulations requiring the socialist leader's speeches be televised on cable. Radio Caracas Television, an anti-Chavez channel known as RCTV that switched to cable in 2007 after the government refused to renew its over-the-air license, disappeared from the airwaves shortly after midnight. RCTV was dropped just hours after Diosdado Cabello, director of Venezuela's state-run telecommunications agency, said several local channels carried by cable television have breached broadcasting laws and should be removed from the airwaves.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
CARACAS, Venezuela — Tens of thousands of Venezuelans opposed to President Hugo Chavez took to the streets Saturday, blaming him for rolling blackouts, water rationing, widespread crime and other problems they say are making daily life increasingly difficult. Chavez backers flooded the capital's avenues with an equally impressive demonstration as the socialist leader confronts mounting criticism and an emboldened opposition ahead of upcoming congressional
Friday, January 22, 2010
Americas: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has gone off the deep end again, claiming the U.S. engineered the Haiti earthquake. It's a laughable malevolence, of course. But given the spectacular U.S. aid effort, it's also a threat. Right now, the dictator's No. 1 foreign policy aim is to discredit the U.S. aid effort in Haiti. Shortly after Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake, Chavez, trying to whip up paranoia, accused America of seeking a "military occupation" there. When that didn't work and U.S. aircraft carriers and hospital ships steamed in to rescue ravaged Port-au-Prince, Chavez told Spanish newspaper ABC that the earthquake was the...
Monday, January 18, 2010
CARACAS - Venezuela's Mariscal Sucre project, which has estimated reserves of 14.7 trillion cubic feet of gas, has failed to attract private interest after the government invited firms to make offers last week. The government this month improved the conditions it was offering companies to help develop the project, but in the end nobody came forward, private sector sources close to the process said on Monday. State oil company PDVSA has yet to announce the results. Last year PDVSA invited a group of (international) companies...to consider taking part in the project.... PDVSA forecasts that the field will produce 1.2 billion...
Sunday, March 14, 2010
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