Chávez suscribirá 200 convenios con Evo Morales

Venezuela planea inversiones petroleras en Bolivia por unos 1.500 millones de dólares y otros 100 millones en la agropecuaria local, inversión con la que Chávez y Morales impulsarán una corporación trinacional asociados con Cuba.

Hugo Chavez's Incredibly Shrinking Revolution

...as happened in Castro’s Cuba, the utopian illusion that Chavez is creating a Worker’s Paradise in Venezuela is rapidly giving way to ugly reality. The country’s poverty, instead of decreasing with purported socialist redistribution of wealth, has “risen to more than 50 percent” since Chavez took power, reported the left-leaning Toronto Star.

That Chávez Thing Is Over

While Chávez does seem to rekindle a certain romantic Western nostalgia for Latin American guerrilla movements, the underlying trends point in the opposite direction. Voters in Latin America, far from crying out for a radically new economic model inspired by Caracas, are in fact rallying powerfully behind leaders and parties who promote more-orthodox economic policies

Bush says democracy eroding in Venezuela, Bolivia

CHICAGO (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Monday he was concerned about the erosion of democracy in Venezuela and Bolivia.

Chavez 'coup' is next Stone

CARACAS: Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that Oliver Stone was planning to film a movie about the 2002 coup in Venezuela that briefly ousted the former army officer. Stone would team up with British producer John Daly, who worked on The Last Emperor, Chavez said. "Top news—two filmmakers join forces to make movie about the coup in Venezuela," Chavez said during his weekly Sunday broadcast. Chavez said his government had given them permission to announce plans for the movie at the Cannes film festival.

Venezuela a favor de recortar producción de crudo

CARACAS - Venezuela se manifestó el lunes a favor de un recorte de producción de crudos en la Organización de Países Exportadores de Petróleo (OPEP) para enfrentar la situación de altos inventarios que estarían incidiendo en los precios, declaró el lunes el ministro de Energía, Rafael Ramírez.

Hugo Chavez Helps Drug Barons, Backs The Taliban, Jails His Enemies . . . And Hates The Middle Class. Meet Red Ken's New Best Friend

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez was met by a welcome rally of supporters yesterday at the beginning of a two-day visit. Today he will have lunch with London mayor Ken Livingstone and meetings with Leftwing MPs and trade unions. The authoritarian South American has become an icon for the Left - but the truth is that he has exploited his country's oil wealth to launch an onslaught on democracy.