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| . |  The history of the coup that failed: Venezuela 5/11 : Democracy Held Hostage Venezuela's oil reserves swell to 130 bln barrels Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2008 Venezuela's proven crude oil reserves had swelled to 130 billion barrels as of late April, marking a rise of 30 billion from its prior estimate, energy and oil minister Rafael Ramirez said Thursday. Full Article : breitbart.com Chavez: US against Tehran-Caracas cooperation Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday said Iran-Venezuela bilateral cooperation would help develop Venezuela and the entire Latin American region. In a meeting with Iranian Minister of Industries and Mines, Ali-Akbar Mehrabian, he lauded Tehran-Caracas political, economic, trade and industrial cooperation. Terming the prospect of the two countries' cooperation as "very bright", he said, "Bilateral friendly relation has resulted in solidarity of the two Iranian and Venezuelan nations." Praising Iran's scientific and industrial capabilities, President Chavez called for "transfer of such valuable experiences to his country". Full Article : irna.ir Venezuela to seek end to asset freeze in Dutch court Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Venezuela expects to appear in a court in the Netherlands by the end of the month to demand an end to an asset freeze won by Exxon Mobil. Petroleos de Venezuela SA will tell the court that Exxon is abusing the bilateral investment protection treaty between the Netherlands and Venezuela, the South American country's energy and oil minister, Rafael Ramirez, said today in Rome. Full Article : chron.com Hillary: 'Ready to Lie From Day 1' About Venezuela Posted: Friday, February 29, 2008 It's hard to imagine that Hillary is so uninformed – and has such incompetent foreign policy advisers – that she doesn't know that President Hugo Chávez and his government have won multiple elections that were characterized as free and fair by international observers. But if she knows this, then she is lying. Full Article : commondreams.org Chávez wins release of hostages Posted: Thursday, February 28, 2008 Colombian guerrillas yesterday released four hostages who had been held in the jungle for more than six years, delivering a diplomatic coup to Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, who brokered the deal. Two Venezuelan helicopters scooped up the three men and a woman from a clearing in eastern Colombia and airlifted them to a reunion with relatives waiting in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. The releases raised hopes that Marxist rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), would free more of the estimated 700 hostages languishing in primitive conditions. Full Article : guardian.co.uk Fact Sheet: Arbitration between ExxonMobil and Venezuela Posted: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Fact Sheet: Arbitration between ExxonMobil and Venezuela by Embassy of Venezuela in the U.S. February 18, 2008 Despite Venezuela's proposal for an amicable solution and an ongoing international arbitration process, ExxonMobil has resorted to aggressive, unilateral and coercive measures to disqualify any proposed solution, something that could be described as "judiciary terrorism." Venezuela's intention has been to bring illegal oil projects from the rich Orinoco Oil Belt into its legal framework and thus stop the continued transferring of resources needed for social development from the People of Venezuela to the coffers of large foreign multinational companies. This has been accepted by all oil companies operating in Venezuela, except ExxonMobil. Full Article : trinicenter.com Amnesty for Coup Participants Posted: Saturday, January 5, 2008 Venezuelan President's Amnesty for Coup Participants is Praised and Criticised Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez granted amnesty on Monday to a number of opposition leaders connected to the shortlived military coup against his government in April 2002 and a two month oil industry shutdown which caused an estimated $10 billion dollars damage to the economy and ended in January 2003. Chavez said he hoped the amnesty decree would "send a message to the country that we can live together despite our differences." Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com Concession Speech of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela Posted: Sunday, December 9, 2007 December 8th 2007, by Hugo Chavez President Chavez's historic concession speech, in which he had to concede, for the first time in nine years and after 12 nation-wide votes, that his side lost. The constitutional reform referendum, which Chavez described as the most important vote of his presidency, was to help bring about "21st century socialism in Venezuela. Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com Chavez Concedes Venezuela's Constitutional Reform Lost Posted: Monday, December 3, 2007 Chavez Concedes Venezuela's Constitutional Reform Lost in "Foto Finish" December 3rd 2007, by Venezuelanalysis.com Caracas, December 3, 2007 - Venezuela's National Electoral Council Announced at 1:15am that the No vote against the President's constitutional reform proposal lost 49.3% to 50.7%, with 45% abstention. Chavez conceded that the reform proposal lost "for now." The vote was divided into two blocks, whereby the first block included Chavez's 33 proposed article changes and the second block included changes proposed by the national assembly. The second block lost with a slightly higher margin, with 51.0% for "No" to 49.0% for "Yes". Who's Pulling the Strings? Behind Venezuela's "Student Rebellion" By George Ciccariello-Maher : June 09, 2007 What If NBC Cheered on a Military Coup Against Bush? By William Blum : June 08, 2007 Chavez Dismisses Disapproval of Venezuela's Media Policy By Gregory Wilpert : June 05, 2007 JFK Four: Connecting Propaganda Dots from Jamaat al-Muslimeen to Hugo Chávez? By Kurt Nimmo : June 02, 2007 RCTV and Freedom of Speech in Venezuela By Gregory Wilpert : June 02, 2007 Hugo Chavez versus RCTV By Bart Jones : May 30, 2007 Venezuela, RCTV, And Media Freedom: Just The Facts, Please By James Jordan : May 29, 2007 Venezuela's RCTV: Sine Die and Good Riddance By Stephen Lendman : May 28, 2007 Coup Co-Conspirators as Free-Speech Martyrs By FAIR : May 25, 2007 Television's role in the coup against Chávez By Leading Voices from Britain : May 26, 2007 Venezuela and RCTV: Is Free Speech Really at Stake? By Patrick Mcelwee : May 25, 2007 Venezuela's RCTV Acts of Sedition By Stephen Lendman : January 25, 2007 Gustavo Cisneros and Caribbean Communications Network Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela U.S. News Editorial Archive | Headlines Archive 72hrs that exposed the mainstream media Short-lived April 11-13 coup against Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez Three Days that Shook the Media A Narco News White Paper U.S. Crusade / World News / Homepage  | . |
