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Sept 17 2009 Links to Chavez related Stories from CNN News
updated Sat September 12, 2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home Friday after a sometimes controversial nine-country
tour and said he had purchased weapons from Russia.
updated Fri September 11, 2009
Spanish energy company Repsol announced Friday a large natural gas find off the coast of Venezuela
and visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was immediately informed, a Repsol spokesman told CNN.
updated Fri September 11, 2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ended a sometimes controversial nine-country tour on a quieter note
Friday, meeting with top Spanish leaders in Madrid.
updated Thur September 10, 2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was in Moscow on Thursday to negotiate and sign new oil and gas contracts
between his country and Russia.
updated Mon September 7, 2009
Venezuela will begin exporting 20,000 barrels per day of gasoline to Iran next month as the nations
strengthen bilateral cooperation, according to Iranian state media and the Venezuelan government.
updated Sun September 6, 2009
The Venezuelan government initiated a new charge against a private television broadcaster and said
that 29 additional radio stations would soon be closed, the latest move in what critics call a crackdown on freedom of expression.
updated Sun September 6, 2009
Iran and Venezuela plan to stand up against "imperialist" foes by strengthening bilateral cooperation
on a range of issues, including nuclear power, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday.
updated Sat September 5, 2009
Critics of Hugo Chavez marched in cities across the globe Friday, calling the Venezuelan president
a dictator and violator of human rights.
updated Thur September 3, 2009
The recent closure of 32 privately owned radio stations and a proposed law to punish "media crimes"
are signs that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is moving to quash criticism of his government, according to a recent U.S.
intelligence report.
updated Tue August 25, 2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he is preparing to break off diplomatic relations with Colombia
over the neighboring country's plan to allow U.S. troops access to its military bases.
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Greg Palast: Continue reading ‘George Bush Should Get Down on his
Knees and Kiss Hugo Chavez’s Behind’
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"Finding Bolivar’s Heir"
A special
report by independent journalist Greg Palast in which he travels to Venezuela on special assignment from Link TV to get beyond
the U.S. media image of President Hugo Chavez and to find out why the Bush administration is trying to oust him. The report
offers a never-before-seen interview with Chavez, insight into Chavez’s relationship with the U.S. as well as Chavez’s
plans for Venezuela, perspectives from opposition party members and raw footage from the slums of Caracas. To view the 30-minute
film in streaming format
click here <30 min> Link TV interview
You’d think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo
Chavez’s behind. Not only has Chavez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States.
And not only did he offer to bring aid to the victims of Katrina. In my interview with the president of Venezuela on March
28, he made Bush the following astonishing offer: Chavez would drop the price of oil to $50 a barrel, “not too high,
a fair price,” he said — a third less than the $75 a barrel for oil recently posted on the spot market. That would
bring down the price at the pump by about a buck, from $3 to $2 a gallon.
But our President has basically told Chavez
to take his cheaper oil and stick it up his pipeline. Before I explain why Bush has done so, let me explain why Chavez has
the power to pull it off — and the method in the seeming madness of his “take-my-oil-please!” deal.
Venezuela,
Chavez told me, has more oil than Saudi Arabia. A nutty boast? Not by a long shot. In fact, his surprising claim comes from
a most surprising source: the U.S. Department of Energy. In an internal report, the DOE estimates that Venezuela has five
times the Saudis’ reserves. However, most of Venezuela’s mega-horde of crude is in the
WATCH <11 min> gogggle interview
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