Full Coverage: Venezuela

27.05.2008 The energy funding agreement between London and Venezuela's state-owned oil company, instituted by former mayor Ken Livingstone, will not be renewed when it concludes in August.

09.04.2008 CARACAS, Apr 8 (IPS) - Trawl fishing is on its way out in Venezuela, amid demonstrations by artisanal fisherfolk who support the new law as amended by President Hugo Chavez.

14.03.2008 Daniel Wilkinson wades past the Caracas-Washington 'mudslinging' and invokes Venezuela's past experience with representative democracy -- "a disaster" -- to interpret the coexistence of Chávez's "authoritarian tendencies," enormous popularity, and "Bolivarian" movement.

06.03.2008 As diplomatic and military tensions between Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela rise, Forrest Hylton delves into the complex relationships between Colombian President Uribe and his political allies, the right-wing paramilitaries, Chávez, and the FARC.

19.12.2007 Gabriel Hetland explains that the recent referendum raises more questions than answers about Venezuelan public opinion and the future of President Hugo Chavez.

13.11.2007 President Chavez of Venezuela faces the most serious threat since the 2002 military coup, with violent street demonstrations by privileged university students leading to major street battles in Caracas, says James Petras.

05.11.2007 "The [widespread] recognition that Washington's economic policies and institutions have failed miserably in Latin America" explains the continental leaders' decision to open a development "Bank of the South," says Mark Weisbrot.

16.10.2007 An examination of four local newspapers published from 2003-2007 has revealed that over 1,000 Venezuelans faced economic, political, and free speech intimidation based on their membership or participation in groups not aligned with the government.
From: El Universal

29.08.2007 Steve Ellner looks at the successes and failures of some of the key policies advanced by the pioneer of "21st century socialism," looking particularly at Hugo Chavez's state-endorsed workers cooperatives and his initiative to eliminate illiteracy.

21.08.2007 Following a deal between London Mayor Ken Livingstone and the Venezuelan oil company PetrÓleos de Venezuela Europa, a scheme was launched yesterday which will give half-priced bus travel to up to 250,000 low-income Londoners.
From: Mayor of London

30.05.2007 In what a leading rights group[ has called "a politically motivated decision," the Venezuela government has decided not to renew a license for the only commercial television station in the country that has remained strongly critical of the government.
From: Human Rights Watch

22.12.2006 Hugo Chávez's resounding victory in well-monitored elections shows that the self-styled socialist has won over Venezuela's poor majority. But has he put the country on the slow road to autocracy? A pair of Latin America-based journalists get beyond the rhetoric to really examine Venezuela's politics and policies.

05.12.2006 O presidente bolivariano da Venezuela, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias, está reeleito para um novo mandato de seis anos, com mais de 60% dos votos dos eleitores de seu país. Chávez derrotou o candidato norte-americano Manoel Rosales e em sua primeira declaração afirmou que “o diabo que pretende dominar o mundo foi derrotado”.

21.11.2006 The stage is already being set for the upcoming elections, as mainstream media in Venezuela constantly mention the possibility of fraud, and claims the elections are not transparent.

28.10.2006 After 35 rounds of voting with no clear winner, the United States is calling on Venezuela to give up its bid for a United Nations Security Council seat.

24.10.2006 There has been one issue, however, on which the Bush administration has worked diligently: a long and expensive effort to unseat democratically elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

16.10.2006 We know that the US did support a military coup, which briefly overthrew President Chavez and the US had to back down, when he was restored quickly and also had to back down in the face of a very angry reaction in Latin American. In almost all of Latin America, there was a very angry reaction. They take democracy there more seriously then we do here.

16.10.2006 "We know that the U.S. did support a military coup, which briefly overthrew President Chavez and the U.S. had to back down when he was restored quickly....In almost all of Latin America, there was a very angry reaction. They take democracy there more seriously then we do here." Noam Chomsky responds to an audience member's question at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently.

13.10.2006 Les élections présidentielles qui se tiendront au Venezuela, le 3 décembre prochain, seront précédées d’une intensification des attaques de la presse « indépendante » contre le président du Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, et contre la révolution vénézuélienne.

06.09.2006 LIMA, Peru, Sep 5 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration has announced it may revoke trade preferences from three large South American countries in a move some experts believe is designed to pressure them to consent to free trade agreements with the United States.