After a year of cancer treatment and facing a tough re-election campaign, President Hugo Chávez is trying to show he is still the dominant figure in Venezuelan politics.
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After Cancer Treatment, Chávez Reclaims Spotlight
The US rejects as “horrific” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s musings about whether the US might be giving Latin American leaders cancer.
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US rejects Chavez cancer comments
Following the cancer diagnosis of Argentina's president this week, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday wondered if United States could be infecting the region's leaders with the illness.
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Chavez: Is U.S. behind bout of cancer?
VALENCIA, Venezuela — In the modest, aqua-colored house where Wilson Ramos grew up, his close-knit family hunkered down on Thursday, grappling with his abduction as President Hugo Chavez’s government launched a high-profile investigation to bring home one of the country’s newest, brightest baseball talents. Read full article > >
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Wilson Ramos kidnapping: Family and friends wait and pray
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denies reports he was rushed to hospital with kidney failure, telling state TV his recovery from cancer is going well.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is heading to Cuba for his fourth and final round of chemotherapy in his cancer treatment.
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Final cancer therapy for Chavez
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is set to undergo a third round of chemotherapy, this time in Caracas, after having a cancerous tumour removed in Cuba in June.
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Chavez set for Caracas treatment
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is in good spirits after returning home from Cuba following a second round of cancer treatment there.
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Chavez home after more treatment
CARACAS, Venezuela — Holding cells in Venezuelan police stations have begun to fill up a week after a government order to temporarily halt new admissions to the country’s overcrowded and violent prisons. Some police chiefs said Wednesday the lockups in their stations are either at capacity or nearly full as a result of the order for prisons to stop accepting new inmates for a month. The order came last week from President Hugo Chavez’s newly appointed prisons minister, Iris Varela. Police Chief Manuel Furelos of Caracas’ Sucre district said many local police forces are running out of room in their holding cells. Read full article > >
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As Venezuela halts new prison admissions, cells at police stations are filling up
HAVANA — A Venezuelan vice president says President Hugo Chavez is recovering well a day after undergoing surgery in Cuba for a pelvic abscess. Chavez is “very up to date on all issues relating to our country,” Venezuelan Vice President Rafael Ramirez says, adding that he had saw Chavez personally on Friday following the procedure, and again on Saturday. “Comandante Chavez is well, and in the process of recuperation,” he said in comments broadcast on Cuba’s Saturday evening state-run newscast. Read full article > >
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Venezuela’s Chavez recovering after surgery, staying abreast of issues concerning his country
IPOJUCA, Brazil — Here on Brazil’s northeast coast, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dreamed of building an oil refinery and naming it after a Brazilian adventurer who had fought for Venezuela’s independence. The joint venture with Brazil, he said in trips here, would help unify Latin America against his adversary, the United States. The $15 billion refinery is now two years away from completion, but with little input from Venezuela or its mercurial president, who for years backed projects regionwide in his drive to make Venezuela the vanguard of a new era in Latin America . Read full article > >
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Chavez’s influence wanes in Latin America
When a Venezuelan prisoner escaped last year and fled to the United States, the Caracas government called him a fugitive. Raul Diaz Pena had been convicted of helping bomb two diplomatic missions — “a terrorist,” according to President Hugo Chavez.
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Ros-Lehtinen brings anti-communist fervor to once-staid committee
When a Venezuelan prisoner escaped last year and fled to the United States, the Caracas government called him a fugitive. Raul Diaz Pena had been convicted of helping bomb two diplomatic missions — “a terrorist,” according to President Hugo Chavez.
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Ros-Lehtinen brings anti-communist fervor to once-staid committee
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shake hands in an apparently amicable encounter at a time of tension between the two countries.
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Chavez, Clinton chat amid tension
The US revokes the visa of the Venezuelan ambassador, the state department says, after President Hugo Chavez rejects the US envoy to Caracas.
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US ‘revokes Venezuela envoy visa’
As Venezuela halts new prison admissions, cells at police stations are filling up
Thursday, August 11th, 2011Venezuela’s Chavez recovering after surgery, staying abreast of issues concerning his country
Sunday, June 12th, 2011Ros-Lehtinen brings anti-communist fervor to once-staid committee
Sunday, April 10th, 2011Ros-Lehtinen brings anti-communist fervor to once-staid committee
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