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telegraph.co.uk - 32 hours ago
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telegraph.co.uk —
Fresh from defending Carlos the Jackal Hugo Chavez
managed to upset Ugandans on Sunday by claiming that
Idi Amin was not as brutal as everyone made him out to be.
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Hugo Chavez 'doubts' brutality of Idi Amin
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news.bbc.co.uk - 3 days ago
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defended jailed killer
"Carlos the Jackal" and several world leaders he says
are wrongly considered "bad guys". In a speech to international socialist politicians, Mr Chavez said "Carlos", a Venezuelan, was not a ...
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Venezuela's Hugo Chavez defends 'Carlos the Jackal'
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faustasblog.com - 5 days ago
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Remember how the other day Hugo Chávez was
saying that he was having Cuban technicians bomb clouds
for rain ? He proclaimed it on TV (video in Spanish) Well, Hugo Chávez claims he is now able to make the clouds abort by firing rays from a cannon housed at his presidential palace. ...
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Chavez now making clouds abort from the presidential palace
noticias24.com - 13 days ago
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noticias24.com —
El Presidente Hugo Chávez ha criticado hoy, en
el programa Aló Presidente, que “hay mucha gente gorda
en Venezuela”. Revisando un estudio nutricional ha afirmado que el porcentaje de obesidad ha pasado de un 6,3 a un 14,5% .“Ojo con los gordos: a ...
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» Chávez dice que “hay muchos gordos en ...
mcclatchydc.com - 4 days ago
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mcclatchydc.com —
WASHINGTON — America's once clear dominance in space
is eroding as other nations, including China, Iran and
North Korea, step up their activities, a panel of experts told the House subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Thursday.
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U.S. losing its lead in space, experts warn Congress
faustasblog.com - 13 days ago
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faustasblog.com —
In today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern: The country
suffers power shortages while Chavez sends troops to the
Colombian border. Related reading: Blackouts Plague Energy-Rich Venezuela Bolivarian bully Chavez Orders Venezuela to Ready for War as Colombia Urges Calm Chavez Says ...
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Blackout in Venezuela: 15 Minutes on Latin America
alertnet.org - 8 days ago
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alertnet.org —
*Cubans to try to seed clouds in South
American nation *Government criticized for poor planning in drought
CARACAS, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to "bomb clouds" to ...
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Chavez asking Cubans to 'bomb clouds' amid drought
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 12 days ago
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For a long time I have been saying
(along with a lot of other people), that Hugo
Chavez was running his country into the ground. He diverted investment funds from PDVSA, Venezuela's state-run oil company, into social programs. As long as ...
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Chavez's Economic Problems Turn Nasty
astuteblogger.blogspot.com - 11 days ago
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GLENN TONIGHT: MEGAN MCARDLE: Chavez’s Economic Problems Turn
Nasty: “For a long time I have been saying
(along with a lot of other people), that Hugo Chavez was running his country into the ground. He diverted investment funds from PDVSA, ...
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CHAVEZ CONTINUES HIS LEFTWARD LURCH AND HIS DOWNWARD SPIRAL
pajamasmedia.com - 12 days ago
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pajamasmedia.com —
MEGAN MCARDLE: Chavez’s Economic Problems Turn Nasty: “For
a long time I have been saying (along with
a lot of other people), that Hugo Chavez was running his country into the ground. He diverted investment funds from PDVSA, ...
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MEGAN MCARDLE: Chavez’s Economic Problems Turn Nasty: ...
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 7 days ago
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Sahara cocaine plane crash probed The UN is
investigating the crash in the Sahara desert of a
cargo plane, which is thought to have been carrying cocaine from Venezuela. Alexandre Schmidt from the UN drugs agency told the BBC that the plane could have carried up to 10 tonnes of cocaine, which ...
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Hmmm, Venezuela just helping people around the world?
faustasblog.com - 6 days ago
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In today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern, Franklin Brito,
biologist, who recommended that farmers use a blight-resistant variety
of yam instead of using the toxic pesticides that the mayor of Sucre municipality wanted, is on hunger strike. Here he explains his plight (in Spanish): ...
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VIDEO Venezuela Franklin Brito’s hunger strike: 15 ...
topics.nytimes.com - 12 days ago
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topics.nytimes.com —
Editors' Note Editors' Note clarifying what Venezuela Pres
Hugo Chavez said at United Nations; article, because of
editing error derived from translation of Chavez's speech, has Chavez saying he admired Noam Chomsky, and was sorry he didn't meet him ...
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John Kenneth Galbraith News - The New York Times
gallup.com - 12 days ago
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gallup.com —
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Hugo Chavez's popularity among
Venezuelans has waned in recent years. Less than half
of Venezuelans (47%) in August 2009 said they approved of Chavez' job performance -- down from 61% in late 2006 when he was elected to a ...
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‘Chavismo’ Losing Steam in Venezuela
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 13 days ago
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commonsensewonder.blogspot.com —
The difference between a Communist/Socialist government and the
free market is that the former always asks you
to do with less while the latter is focused on meeting the consumer's wants and needs. Do you think socialized medicine will be different? Blackouts Plague Energy-Rich ...
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The lessons Venezuela can teach us
nytimes.com - 13 days ago
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nytimes.com —
CARACAS, Venezuela This country may be an
energy colossus, with the largest conventional oil reserves outside
the Middle East and one of the world’s mightiest hydroelectric systems, but that has not prevented it from enduring serious electricity and ...
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Blackouts Plague Energy-Rich Venezuela
themoderatevoice.com - 12 days ago
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As the Venezuela article we posted yesterday headlined
If War Breaks Out, Venezuela’s ‘Fifth Column’ Will Have
to Be Confronted ably demonstrates, tensions – and paranoia – are increasing along the Venezuela-Colombian border. A few days ago during his weekly ...
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Hugo Chavez: ‘Prepare for War … Colombia Now in U.S. ...
google.com - 10 days ago
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google.com —
(AP) 14 hours ago CARACAS, Venezuela Call it
the Bolivarian battle of the bulge. President Hugo Chavez
said in a televised speech Friday that "there are lots of fat people" in Venezuela and advised his supporters to exercise and eat healthy to trim ...
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The Associated Press: The Chavez Diet: Venezuelans urged ...
faustasblog.com - 7 days ago
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faustasblog.com —
At the Washington Times, Islamic militants boosting role
in drug trade The sea lanes of the South
Atlantic have become a favored route for drug traffickers carrying narcotics from Latin America to West and North Africa, where al Qaeda-related groups are increasingly involved in transporting ...
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Islamic militants and the drug trade
faustasblog.com - 11 days ago
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My latest article, Chavez Sort-of Backtracks on War
Statements is up at Real Clear World. Please read
it and leave a comment.
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Chavez Sort-of Backtracks on War Statements
