Venezuelans vote on future of “Chavista” politics
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/14/us-venezuela-election-idUSBRE93C0B120130414
Favorite seeks to ride Chavez endorsement to victory
CARACAS, VENEZUELA Voters who kept Hugo Chavez in office for 14 years were deciding Sunday whether to elect the devoted lieutenant he chose to carry on the revolution that endeared him to the poor but that many Venezuelans believe is ruining the nation.
Across Caracas, trucks blaring bugle calls awoke Venezuelans long before dawn in the ruling socialists’ [...]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The road from the military academy where Hugo Chavez’s body has been lying in state to the hilltop museum where he’ll be displayed indefinitely is lined with some of the most dangerous slums on the planet. It runs under bridges in dire need of repair and past grocery stores with few groceries.
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Venezuela’s information minister says the government has decided that the body of Hugo Chavez will [...]
Venezuela faced political turmoil and the possibility of new elections on Friday when it became increasingly unlikely that President Hugo Chavez would recover his health in time to be inaugurated for a new term next week.
The government, which has given only vague updates on his condition since he flew to Cuba for emergency treatment, admitted that Mr Chavez’s condition had worsened.
“The President has faced complications as a result of a [...]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan voters Luis Gustavo Marin and Dunia Nessi are on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but as Sunday’s election draws closer they both fear what will happen if their candidate loses.
Marin, the security chief for a judge and a firm supporter of President Hugo Chavez, worries that opposition candidate Henrique Capriles will launch a violent purge of Chavez supporters if he wins. If the president [...]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan voters Luis Gustavo Marin and Dunia Nessi are on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but as Sunday’s election draws closer they both fear what will happen if their candidate loses.
Marin, the security chief for a judge and a firm supporter of President Hugo Chavez, worries that opposition candidate Henrique Capriles will launch a violent purge of Chavez supporters if he wins. If the president [...]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Officials from the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela met on Wednesday with an American detained in the South American country.
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Singapore 0.4
Tokyo 0.5
Hong Kong 0.6
Berlin 1.0
Sydney 1.0
London 1.4
Toronto 1.7
Amsterdam 1.8
Paris 4.4
New York 6.0
Los Angeles 7.5
Mexico City 8.0
Moscow 9.6
Sao Paolo 15.6
Chicago 19.4
We could be doing worse: Caracas, Venezuela has a murder rate of 130 per 100,000.
Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/The-Deadliest-Global-City-163874546.html#ixzz22Fyiqno0
“Not many people know that a foreign interest, Smartmatic, purchased Sequoia Voting Systems, which controls 70 percent of our electronic voting hardware and software in the U.S.
The president of Smartmatic is Antonio Mugica, who has dual citizenship in America and Venezuela. Mugica owns yet another company called Vista. This company controls elections software and hardware in Venezuela. Vista and Smartmatic are located in the same building in Caracas, Venezuela.
Basically, it [...]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez led an energetic homecoming celebration on Saturday, rallying thousands of supporters from a balcony of the presidential palace after three weeks in Cuba for cancer surgery.
Chavez turned the event into a campaign rally, vowing to win re-election in the Oct. 7 presidential vote and demanding unity from his followers. Returning to the combativeness that has characterized much of his 13-year presidency, Chavez insulted [...]
CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez attacked the new opposition candidate for the country’s highest office as a “low-life … pig” in a defamatory speech broadcast on state radio and TV late Thursday.
As the country’s election season gets underway, Chavez said of opposition candidate Henrique Capriles that, “you have a pig’s tail, a pig’s ears, and you snort like a pig,” according to AFP.
On Sunday, the 39-year-old Capriles won [...]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez’s government began repatriating Venezuela’s gold reserves from European banks Friday as the first shipment arrived on a flight from Paris.
Troops guarded the shipment in a caravan of at least five armored vehicles that carried the gold to the Central Bank in Caracas.
A group of government supporters cheered and waved flags as the caravan passed, with soldiers holding their rifles at the ready. Two [...]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of President Hugo Chavez gathered outside the presidential palace on Sunday for a prayer meeting, some of them appearing with shaved heads in solidarity with their leader’s struggle against cancer.
Those attending included a group of six from the Dominican Republic who shaved their heads. Other Venezuelans joined them and said they are praying [...]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sang, danced and said he intends to stay in power for two more decades as he celebrated his 57th birthday looking ahead to months of cancer treatment.
Chavez rallied a crowd of cheering supporters from the balcony of the presidential palace on Thursday, waving a large Venezuelan flag and briefly wrapping himself in it. He said he expects [...]
By IAN JAMES
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is using Twitter as a tool to govern remotely while he undergoes cancer treatment in Cuba.
In more than 40 messages this week on his “chavezcandanga” account, he has approved money for a Caracas trash collection project, praised plans for a new park and cheered on the national soccer team.
Chavez hasn’t mentioned anything about his chemotherapy but has alluded to his [...]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday said he is instructing officials to boost prison construction after a 27-day uprising by inmates highlighted problems of overcrowding and violence.
Chavez likened the problems in Venezuela’s prisons to cancer, saying dealing with them requires “deep treatment.”
Days before Chavez underwent a cancer operation last month in Cuba, troops stormed a prison near Caracas in a search for [...]
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez received a hero’s welcome as he rallied thousands of supporters upon his return to Venezuela, vowing to beat cancer after undergoing surgery in Cuba.
Wearing the combat fatigues and red beret of his army days, Chavez projected strength as he spoke from the balcony of the presidential palace on Monday, waving to the [...]
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