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Prison guard arrested for exortion of taxi drivers at Venezuelan prison

The prosecution succeeded against the custodial guardian of Sabaneta Penitentiary, Melvin Ocando (54), who was arrested on January 17 this year, when he allegedly extorted to the board of a line of taxis located in that prison in Maracaibo. Read Article

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Spain newspaper reports chavez has up to one year to live if he does not seek intensive treatment

Between nine and twelve months of life are you the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, if he insists on right to refuse treatment that would force him to temporarily leave his presidential duties, according to the latest medical examination by specialists who care for you. From the new tests on 30 December, the doctors concluded […]

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Newspaper from Spain states medical records indicates Chavez has no more than one year to live

Uncertainty. That is what has generated, mainly in Venezuela the news published by ABC that President Hugo Chavez has no more than a year of life if not subjected to more intensive treatment , according to medical reports to which it has had access to this newspaper. The Venezuelans have doubts about the poor state […]

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Venezuela: Little control over individuals entering nightclubs with weapons

Odalis Caldera, Secretary of Public Order and Security, said there are few reports received from the clubs because intoxicated people carry guns. “The owners of the premises allow entry of these people for fear of losing them as customers for fear of being attacked. Several procedures have recovered handguns that hide beneath the bars.” Those […]

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Margarita Island Venezuela: 30 tourists from Brazil assaulted, robbed by armed gunmen

A group of 30 Brazilian tourists were assaulted in the early hours of Friday for more than a dozen armed men who entered the inn where they were staying in the famous Margarita Island, northeastern Venezuela, officials said.”We’re talking about 30 to 35 (…) Brazilian national tourists that at two in the morning were submitted […]

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Ecuador admits occasional presence of the FARC in its territory

The border is Colombia with Ecuador and Venezuela are the two main strategic rear areas of the Colombian guerrilla groups operating in this country. The Ecuador Defense Minister Javier Ponce, admitted today in the central Colombian town of Villa de Leyva’s presence “occasional” from FARC rebels in Ecuadorian territory. “We have always recognized an intermittent […]

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Venezuela sent 100 million gallons of fuel to Colombia in 2011

Venezuela sent more than 100 million gallons of fuel to Colombia in 2011 as a result of the relaunch of bilateral ties, said the Ministry of Oil and Mining in Venezuela. It said in a statement that under the Fuel Export Scheme Norte de Santander department of Colombia 105,458,678 liters of fuel dispatched to the […]

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Venezuela: Miltary takes control of gold mine after shootout leaves six dead

The National Guard and the Army took control of New Bulla mine, located in the town of Paragua in southern Bolivar state, after the death of 6 miners in a clash between gangs “24” and “Marcopolo “for control of the place. This was announced by Secretary of Public Safety of the region, Julio Cesar Fuentes […]

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The Challenge of Iran: Ahmadinejad Latin American tour

The Challenge of Iran: Ahmadinejad Latin American tour The (dangerous) Latin connection Chavez Ahmadinejad manages raw materials for its nuclear race while confirming that it is closer to getting the atomic bomb. First they move the money. Iran is interested in exploiting uranium mines in Venezuela and Ecuador in return for investing millions in economic […]

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U.S. Government expells Consul General of Venezuela in Miami

The United States expelled Venezuela’s consul general in Miami after he was disseminated reports that she discussed possible cyber attacks on U.S. government computers when he was at the Venezuelan Embassy in Mexico. The State Department said Sunday that Livia told Acosta Noguera diplomatic persona non grata and gave her until Tuesday to leave the […]

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Israeli Association of Venezuela rejects visit by Iran’s Ahmadinejad

The Confederation of Jewish Associations of Venezuela (CAIV) issued a statement Sunday through which reject the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country. “We are deeply concerned about the presence of the Iranian president, representative of a regime criticized for its performance, characterized by the oppression of his people, the violation of human rights […]

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Venezuela: Chavez appoints new defense minister

President Hugo Chavez named a powerful general and close ally as his defense minister Friday, an officer accused by Washington of aiding drug traffickers and arming rebels in neighboring Colombia. Read Article

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Missing Colombian aircraft located in Venezuela, no signs of life

Venezuelan authorities today located in a mountainous region of Tachira, on the border with Colombia, the plane with two passengers who disappeared last Thursday, said Luis Diaz, director of Venezuela’s relief agency. “Unfortunately there are no signs of life in the aircraft, but have to wait for it to reach the crash site to determine […]

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Chavez wonders if U.S. played role in Presidents in Latin America acquiring cancer

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speculated on Wednesday that the United States might have developed a way to give Latin American leaders cancer, after Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez joined the list of presidents diagnosed with the disease. It was a typically controversial statement by Venezuela’s socialist leader, who underwent surgery in June to remove a tumor from […]

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United Nations have concern over detention of Venezuelan judge

The decision to extend the detention to the judge suspended 31 Control Caracas, Maria Lourdes Afiuni, concerned at the United Nations and as proof of this is that three speakers of the international organization have added their voices to condemn this fact and demand the release of the official. “We are very concerned about the […]

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Finance and business committee from China to visit Venezuela in January

A Chinese committee including representatives of banks and companies will visit Venezuela on January 10 to review cooperation projects and inject more resources to a millionaire common development fund. “On January 10 another Chinese mission will come to Venezuela for more projects,” said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The visit will focus on the areas of […]

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Venezuela: Poll says Chavez not doing well

Alfredo Keller, a sociologist and chief consultant of Alfredo Keller y Asociados polling firm, said on Monday that President Hugo Chavez is “doing very bad” in polls. This is the reason why the Venezuelan president is promoting a campaign based on giving money and tightening the knots of “love-hatred-love” with his followers. “Chavezism has tumbled […]

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Harrassment of individuals reporting police abuse

Venezuela insists on maintaining a stubborn position against the international human rights bodies, as evidenced by the case of the Barrios family, in Aragua state, central north Venezuela. Members of the Barrios family reported that another relative was unlawfully arrested. The arrest came a few days after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned the […]

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Presidents of Peru and Iran to visit Venezuela in 2012

President Hugo Chávez said Tuesday that starting 2012 the presidents of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Peru, Ollanta Humala, will visit Caracas. “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should visit us starting the year,” Chávez said during a phone conversation with state-run television channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV). Read Article

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Venezuela: Drug dealers burning enemies to death

The zones are marked. Each criminal group has a “square” (space for distribution and sale of narcotics) and nobody, absolutely nobody, can violate the other’s territory. If you do, sign your passport to death. There is no doubt that now these organized groups that handle the drug are acting more violent. While their victims have […]

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Alert given in Venezuela for fierce rains in nine states

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Venezuela: Two prison inmates killed and nine wounded in grenade explosion

During conjugal visit on Wednesday, at approximately 5:30 pm a group of inmates of halls 1 and 3 of prison Plant, located in the urbanization El Paraíso de Caracas, faced gunfire and detonated two grenades that caused the death of two inmates and wounding nine others. The deceased were identified as Erick Jimenez and Hector […]

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Venezuela wants to export same products as Ecuador to Russia

The star products of Ecuador’s exports to Russia in 2012 may have an unexpected competitor Venezuela. The country Ranger “wants Russia to start exporting bananas, flowers, cacao, coffee and chocolate in 2012,” said Monday Venezuelan Vice President Elias Jaua Milano, interviewed by Russia Today television channel.Of these products, at least bananas and flowers are major […]

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Caracas Venezuela: 59 deaths recorded over weekend

A total of 59 violent deaths were raised in the capital this weekend, according to unofficial information of forensic science. The figure is divided between homicides, traffic accidents and cases to be determined. So far in December and have been admitted more than 300 bodies at the morgue in Caracas.Read Article

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Venezuela: 39 commercial aviation safety incidents between September 28 and December 6

The Humboldt Rescue Organization reports that the incident happened average of 8.8 events per month in September, to 10.4 in early December. The alert Venezuelan commercial aviation, which was activated in late September, put in evidence three situations: the constant aerial incidents, the need for improved maintenance plans and the urgency of renewing the fleet. […]

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Explosion rocks Venezuelan arms depot

An explosion rocked on Saturday a military ammunition depot but no one was injured, Venezuelan authorities said. The Defense Minister Carlos Mata Figueroa, said the army was investigating the causes of the explosion in the ammunition depot in the western state of Zulia. Read Article

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Alleged Colombian paramilitaries seized in Venezuela

Four alleged Colombian paramilitaries Caracas belonging to the band “Los Rastrojos” were seized by officials of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin) of Venezuela in the state of Tachira, which borders Colombia, reported the Venezuelan News Agency (VNA). Read Article

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Zoo in Caracas going through reforestation project

On Friday, about 600 plants planted by the method of ball land and 50 000 seeds dispersed in the La Muela, Caricuao Zoo in Caracas, on the sixth day of reforestation that conducted this year through the Mission Tree Socialist and the National Electricity Corporation (Corpoelec). The national planner Tree Mission, Juan Robles said that […]

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Venezuela investigates black market in selling babies

A woman took her niece 8 months White neighborhood, west of Maracaibo. The girl was rescued by the Cicpc, on the island of San Carlos.: We investigate this network of child trafficking, said Commissioner Robinson Castillo, head of Cicpc-Zulia. With Aunt arrested the husband and suegraTras remain kidnapped by more than 10 hours by his […]

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Venezuela rejects accusations of collaboration with terrorism

enezuela’s government today rejected statements by Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon, who two days ago accused Iran of creating a “terrorist infrastructure” in Latin America, with the connivance of the Caribbean country, to attack U.S., Israel and its allies. “These abusive and biased statements, which come precisely from the representative of a government engaged […]

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Miranda State Venezuela, more than 400 homes flooded by rains

Miranda State Governor Henrique Capriles Radonski, said that until now a total of 484 homes have been flooded by heavy rains in recent days in the state. Read Article

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Venezuelan Government Confronts Milk Hoarding

Since confronting Italian company Parmalat over its hoarding of milk last week, and fining Swiss transnational Nestle for the same, the Venezuelan institution Indepabis has announced that it is going on the offensive to get hoarded milk to the people. Read Article

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Expert: Caracas in serious risk if rains continue

The Head of Hidrometerologia of the Central University of Venezuela, Adrán Salcedo, called on the authorities to be alert to situations that may arise in the valley that generate rainfall for at least 48 hours. Read Article

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Chancellor Holguin says Venezuela condemned the murder of hostages by the FARC

The Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin, told RCN Radio the Night to his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro, privately described as “a barbaric act” the killing of four hostages by the FARC. In dialogue with RCN Radio, Maria Angela Holguin said that the meeting of Hugo Chavez and Juan Manuel Santos became clear the commitment […]

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Venezuela signs economic agreements with China

President Hugo Chavez holds a private meeting Thursday with Deputy Minister of National Development and Reform of the Republic of China, Zhan Xiao Qiang, at the Palace of Miraflores, where firmaeon agreements on energy, oil and productive economic. The signing of these agreements arises after having installed this past Wednesday, the Tenth Meeting of the […]

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Venezuela, cancer hospital has no supplies

“My wife is here but no supplies, nothing. On Wednesday, the emergency had to bring a relapse,” he explained as he remembered that all drugs that are delivered to your family had to buy because the hospital no more than a week. The medical center offered only confinement and care of nurses, a situation he […]

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Venezuela begins repatriation of gold reserves from Europe

Venezuela’s government on Friday began the repatriation of the first batch of gold reserves from the 1980’s, were deposited in European banks. Chavez in August ordered the withdrawal of all precious metal reserves, estimated at 211.35 tonnes, equivalent to 11 billion dollars, which was the country where U.S. and European banks.The president has defended the […]

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Man in Dominican Republic dies after surgery to remove packets of cocaine from his system

He died mid-morning on Wednesday a man who was held at the Central Hospital of the Armed Forces after emergency surgery to extract several bags of cocaine brought into the stomach of Venezuela, some of which could not drive and therefore had surrendered to the authorities. The National Drug Control (DNCD), the agency confirmed the […]

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Intelligence reports indicate Chavez may be sicker than he admits

Documents from the intelligence services of two countries suggests that cancers of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has spread to his bones and is more aggressive than the government reported. The reports, based on interviews with people who have had access to medical equipment Chavez, probably fed recent rumors that the man who led Venezuela since […]

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Colombian Marxists had plans to sell Uranium to Venezuela

Colombian Marxist rebels plotted to sell uranium to Venezuela in the belief that they would pass it on to “friends from distant lands”, according to leaked emails. The emails were recovered from the computer of Raul Reyes, a former commander with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) who was killed by the country’s army […]

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President of Colombia states former president Uribe not returning calls

The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, has revealed that three months ago his predecessor and political ally, Alvaro Uribe, does not answer the calls, perhaps by the strong criticism that the exmandatario has aired in recent days against the security policy the present government and its relations with Ecuador and Venezuela. Read Article

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Bolivia exports textiles, clothing to Venezuela

The shipment was made in the Viru Viru airport in Santa Cruz. Bolivia exported to Venezuela yesterday 60 tonnes of textiles and clothing of five domestic companies, amounting to $ 2.2 million. “Exports are sent to Venezuela represents over 2.2 million dollars in clothing. The data that we are strong. Venezuela is rapidly outstripping imports […]

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Chilean consul in Caracas, kidnapped, robbed and released

he Chilean consul in Caracas, Juan Carlos Fernandez, was shot at while in power by some individuals who stripped him of his belongings and held him captive for two hours, confirmed on Tuesday Chile’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The incident occurred last Friday when Fernandez left a hotel in Caracas. Unknown intercepted him […]

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Venezuela nationalizes agriculture land held by British company

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday ordered the “forced acquisition” of the company Agropecuaria Flora, belonging to the British Vestey Group and consists of 290 000 hectares of farming in the country, after a struggle in the form of payment. Chavez read and then signed a decree “on the National Executive authorizes the compulsory acquisition […]

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Venezuela, authories rescue catcher from Washington Nationals

Venezuelan authorities said Friday the rescue of the player Major League Baseball, Wilson Ramos. Justice Minister Tarek El Aissami, state television said Ramos is “safe.” The catcher of the Washington Nationals was kidnapped on Wednesday in the family home located in a working class neighborhood in the state of Carabobo, about 150 kilometers west of […]

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Brazil to assist Venezuela in construction of buildings on slopesuilding procedures on

President Hugo Chavez announced that Venezuela Brazil will advise on the construction of small buildings on a slope. El primer mandatario nacional explicó que los planes piloto se realizarán en Caracas y Vargas. The national president explained that the pilot schemes will be held in Caracas and Vargas. Read Article

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Venezuela, prison employees banned from using cell phones

As of NOvember 7, 2011, employees within the national prison system will be prohibited from using their cell phones. The inter-relations director of the agency, Francisco Solorzano said the administrative action seeks to create greater peace in prisons. “We all know that cell phones are a distraction for the job. I am a director in […]

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Six suspected cases of yellow fever in Venezuela

Six possible cases of yellow fever were reported in the week between February and October 8, 2011, according to the Epidemiological Bulletin of the Ministry of Health. This disease, which had been controlled in the decades of 70 and 90, has rebounded since 2000, according to tallies submitted by the Network of Scientific Medical Societies […]

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Telesur broadcasting in Ecuador on open signal

International channel Telesur, which Ecuador is a member since 2007, opened its signal on Monday to Quito and Guayaquil port (southwest), said the secretary (minister) Communication Ecuador, Fernando Alvarado. “We will give you the ability to Telesur” that transmits “open signal”, the official said in remarks released by the government’s digital newspaper. “Gradually everything will […]

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Chavez calls Doctor a liar who said he only had two years to live

The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez , today described as “liar” a doctor who warned that the ruling only two years of life due to cancer being treated. “( Salvador Navarrete ) is a big liar. I laughed reading that interview. That gentleman I do not remember, “he said in relation to a doctor’s statement. […]

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Fifty percent of Venezuela’s air fleet considered obsolete

The president of the National Civil Aviation Institute, Francisco Paz Fleitas, admitted that 45 of the 90 national aircraft requiring repairs or replacements. Airlines must detail the status of your fleet. Fleitas Francisco Paz, president of INAC, announced it developed a “technical committee” with the airlines that are defined in the making of an inventory […]

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Cessna 310 crashes after take off from Maiquetia International, no injuries

Laverdad.com reported that a Cessna 310 plane crashed YV1354 minutes after taking off from Maiquetia International Airport with seven people on board were unharmed in which the event. Loss of power seems to have been the cause. All flights remain on normal schedules. Read Article

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Caracas, last weekend 32 people murdered including a police officer

During this weekend at least 32 bodies entered the morgue de Bello Monte, according to unofficial data. Among them is the body of Richard Manuel Suarez Ospino 33, who served as a corporal II in the Metropolitan Police. He was on Sunday at his residence in Sector El Campito Petare, when a subject known as […]

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Negotiations between inmates at Tocuyito and Venezuelan government, at standstill

Tocuyito paralyzed Dialogue is broken in case of kidnapping Tocuyito jail between prisoners and authorities. Prisoners say the Ministry of Corrections and President Chavez as responsible for the situation. This Friday were frozen the negotiations between the inmates Tocuyito and national authorities. A total of 52 workers remain in captivity, as leverage to ensure compliance […]

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Venezuelan surgeon reports Chavez could live up to two years

The surgeon Aulestia Salvador Navarrete was among a group of doctors who cared for the President in the Miraflores Palace before he trusted their health to the Cuban doctors. Given his experience, says that the president suffers from an aggressive malignant tumor of muscle origin lodged in the pelvis and said that life expectancy could […]

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Venezuela, Chavez family doctor forced to leave country

The Venezuelan doctor Salvador Navarrete, said through a letter published by the newspaper TalCual his diagnosis was “presumptive” and that was the Mexican newspaper who published the interview with “a myriad of misrepresentations and elucunbraciones” El Salvador Navarrete Venezuelan doctor, who diagnosed that the life expectancy of President Hugo Chavez is two years due to […]

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Sunglasses sold by street vendors in Maracaibo, Venezuela pose vision risks

“These lenses may cause eyestrain, headaches, meaty and lens opacity (cataract). This is worn by absorbing the sun’s rays directly, and having a filter, blocking the rays to the lens and cataract occurs “. The retina can degenerate, although no disease prescribed by sun exposure there. “These lenses distort the image and the eye strives […]

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8,000 people at risk from Lake Valencia’s rising level, Venezuela

At least five centimeters has grown uncontrollably Lake Valencia in the last 10 days, which in the opinion of the legislator Germain Benedetti, a member of Proyecto Venezuela fraction to the CLEC, implies that “increases the threat over 8 thousand people south of Maracay who are at imminent risk of losing their lives “, since […]

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Anzoategui Venezuela, 2000 firearms to be destroyed, 248 criminal gangs dismantled

These weapons will be melted soon in a public The Bicentennial Security Device (Dibis) has seized 2017 firearms in the state of Anzoategui, as reported by the Deputy Minister of Public Safety, Nestor Reverol, from Simon Bolivar Sports Complex in the city of Barcelona. “We are receiving today, while delivering to the Department of Arms […]

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Alvarez Paz: In Venezuela there is no Government

“With the expropriations in the Sierra de Perija will infringe the sovereignty of the country” The former governor of Zulia state, Oswaldo Alvarez Paz, called “outrageous” a decision by the Supreme Court in the case of Leopoldo Lopez, where he maintains a ban on holding public office. He said that President Hugo Chavez placed outside […]

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Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela’s planned city from the 1960’s in anguish

In early 1960, a group of U.S. planners arrived in southeastern Venezuela to design an industrial city imagining it as the “Pittsburgh of the tropics”, at the confluence of two rivers and vast resources minerals. But 50 years later, Ciudad Guayana, the only planned city in the country, nestled between the Orinoco and Caroni, with […]

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Venezuela, two workers at Tocuyito prison held hostage, prisoners demand ministers’ attention

Two workers held hostage for more than 72 hours in jail Tocuyito, in Carabobo state, reported that they are running out of food and asked for the presence of the Minister of Corrections, Iris Varela. Read Article

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AgroVenezuela Mission provides loans to cultivate more than 775,000 hectares of food

The Socialist Agricultural Development Fund (Fund) and the Agricultural Bank of Venezuela (BAV) have provided funding to more than 170 000 farmers for an amount of up to 4 000 800 million bolivars. Eight months into the mission AgroVenezuela, public banks have given loans to cultivate 105 000 over 775 hectares of strategic food. This […]

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Venezuela, tear gas bomb dispersed at neigborhood tour for presidential hopeful Henrique Capriles Radonski

The newspaper Univerisal.com reported a group of people threw a tear gas bomb at a crowd gathered for a neighborhood tour for presidential candidte Henrique Capriles radonski. The incident occurred in El valle de Caracas before the candidate arrived, which was subsequently canceled. Read Article

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Venezuela: Politics and Violence

Caracas beat another unenviable record in August 2011, when 563 dead bodies were carried into the city’s Bello Monte morgue. 85% of them were murder victims. On the last weekend of the month, Venezuela’s capital saw one violent death an hour on average. While Latin Americans are shocked about massacres in Mexico and used to […]

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Venezuela, Chavez proposes shooting down suspected drug aircraft

President Hugo Chavez proposed the discussion today in the National Assembly a bill providing for the shooting down of aircraft suspected of drug trafficking when they ignore the order to land. The Venezuelan leader said in a televised speech that the law would aim to discourage those flights in Venezuelan territory. Addressing deputies in a […]

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Chavez to undergo medical tests in Cuba on Monday after chemotherapy

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that “on Monday” in Cuba will undergo a medical examination to “rigorous” to check your body’s response to chemotherapy treatment that was submitted to slow the cancer that was detected. Read Article

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Venezuela, Chavez wants review of Coca Cola and Pepsi’s water business

Hugo Chavez asked the authorities a quick review of the control you have companies like Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola on the distribution of drinking water in Venezuela. Statement that has privatized the water sector and said it would take urgent action. For they opened a distribution of mineral water 65% cheaper than that offered […]

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March against incursion of Colombian guerrillas in Venezuela

Recently, a massive, peaceful march sought to draw attention to the Venezuelan incursions into the region Northeast Front elements “Domingo Lain Sáenz ‘ELN, one of the main guerrilla organizations in Colombia. The protesters, members of neighborhood associations, peasant and labor organizations and local NGOs reported that irregular force applied “policy of extermination against the communities […]

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Port of Guiria in Sucre Venezuela inspects ships for safety issues

In order to verify compliance with maritime safety measures and keep track of vessels passing through the international port of Guiria in Sucre state, the National Institute of Aquatic Spaces (INEA) inspected five vessels and a tugboat moored in Pier 6 of the marine terminal. Read Article

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Bolívar ranks first in drug seizures in Venezuela

Having done research work where they were seized 460 kilos of cocaine in the boat Juergen Schulte on Saturday night, Major General of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), Miguel Vivas Alcides Landino, head of the National Drug and Gen. Edilberto Molina, deputy director of the National Anti-Drug Office (ONA) reported that the Bolivar state ranks […]

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Venezuelan census counts over 14 million people

The National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela (INE) today posted 14 million 256 thousand 389 people registered at the Fourteenth Census of Population and Housing, which represents 48 percent of the population. That entity reported on its website that this figure corresponds to three million 484 thousand 715 houses visited in the whole country since […]

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Venezuela, 22 foreigners arrested for drug seizure on iron ore ship from Belgium

Officials from the Regional Intelligence Unit Drug Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) were able to detect 478 kilos of suspected high-purity cocaine on board Juergen Schulte anchored in the port of Ferrominera Orinoco in Ciudad Guayana, Bolivar State. The 478 kilos corresponded to 354 packages hidden in a compartment of the ship’s engine room with Spanish […]

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Margarita Island, controversy over dog killings

23 dogs died from poisoning in the shell. The Regional Directorate of Health stated that there are 700 reports of persons bitten, but animal rights activists doubt the figure.On September 27 the alert spread through social networks: animal shelters and homeless dogs Proamar warned that the Department of Health New Sparta had ordered a slaughter […]

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Cyber-terrorism in Venezuela

A new way of social control is taking place in Venezuela. Cyber-terrorists are attacking civilians by using methods of extortion and death threats to people who are openly against the current government, Tal Cual Digital reports. These hackers steal e-mail accounts, twitter accounts, and personal identities. It has been already two months and the government […]

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Venezuela, Pakistan, Belarus and Malaysia expressed their support for the Syrian regime

The foreign ministers of Venezuela, Pakistan, Belarus and Malaysia have expressed their governments’ support to the Syrian regime in the context of what they consider a de-legitimization campaign orchestrated by the West, according to the Syrian news agency, SANA. At the end of the 66th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in […]

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President Chavez of Venezuela is suffering kidney failure after intense chemotherapy

According to El Nuevo Herald, newspaper of enormous influence in the Hispanic community in Miami, the president presents a picture of aplastic anemia, the disappearance of the cells responsible for blood production in the bone marrow, which was complicating its medical. Bone marrow aplasia may be total, affecting the production of white blood cells like […]

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Venezuela leads group of experts to fight money laundering

Venezuela has taken over the presidency of the Latin Financial Group of Experts to Control Money Laundering through drug trafficking in the continent at the opening of the group’s 33rd meeting here. Venezuela’s Director of the Anti-Money Laundering Unit of the National Anti-Drug Office (ONA), Annalibe Ruiz has been seconded to look after the group’s […]

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Venezuela, Chavez expropriates private ferry company on Margarita Island

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, has re-signed an expropriation order for a private company. After nationalizing the gold industry and expel the Irish Smurfit Kappa de Venezuela, it is the turn of the Ferry Company Consolidated (Conferry). According to the president himself announced, the company, which operates on the resort island Margarita, northwest of the country, […]

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Venezuela, Public transport units required to have GPS, panic buttons, video cameras

The placement of a comprehensive monitoring system with satellite tracking devices will be compulsory in all public land transport units, reported Monday the Deputy Minister of Public Safety, Nestor Luis Reverol. After the third session of the Security Bureau with the various state security and national public transport sectors, the Deputy Minister announced that by […]

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Venezuela ratifies dialogue in defense of their interests in state bordering Guyana

Venezuela ratifies dialogue in defense of their interests in state bordering Guyana The Venezuelan government issued a statement Monday through which reiterates that, in line with its foreign policy, defend their interests, respecting the friendship and solidarity that keeps all the peoples of Latin America and Caribbean, at the request recently submitted by the Republic […]

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Aeromexico to offer direct flight from Mexico to Caracas

As part of international expansion plan has been proposed for this year, Aeromexico has announced that from next October 10 will begin operating a daily direct link between Mexico City and Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. In addition to supporting business and cultural exchange between both nations, the new route will ensure multiple connectivity options […]

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Chavez claims he is recovering after fourth cycle of chemotherapy

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has said he is recovering “favorably” the fourth cycle of chemotherapy, the latter which has been submitted as part of cancer treatment, but has admitted that his physical strength is “a little diminished “. Read Article

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Venezuela, large seizure of marijuana

National Guard troops stationed in the fixed control point The Quebradona, Pan-American highway in the municipality Tulio Febres Cordero Merida state and assigned to the third platoon of Company Detachment second number 16, on the evening of Thursday 22 September a random verification procedure achieved the seizure of 2 000 745 as panela packaging marijuana. […]

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Venezuela takes out another clandestine airstrip used for drug trafficking(Video)

This act added five tracks destroyed since last August, four of which are located in the Llanos and said entity in Anzoátegui state, a total of 41 clandestine airstrips located in 2011 used for drug trafficking, located between the rivers Siunaruco and Meta, Apure state, south of the country, reinforcing the fight for a territory […]

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Venezuela deports six Colombians and one U.S. citizen to the United States

Local authorities deported on Monday to six Colombians, two of them members of the FARC, and an American were captured this year in Venezuela, which are required in their countries of origin for the crimes of drug trafficking, kidnapping and homicide. Interior Minister Tarek El Aissami, announced Monday, from Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, […]

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Two Brazilian men accused of attempted trafficking adolescents to Venezuela

According to AFP, tTwo Brazilians were accused of international trafficking, after being discovered while trying to bring Venezuela adolescents for sexual exploitation, according to the Office of the State of Rondonia (north) on Monday. The suspects, one of them the run-Venezuela tried to take three teenagers and a woman for the purpose of sexual exploitation, […]

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Venezuelan Foreign Minister accuses the U.S.of promoting drug trafficking

The Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro has accused U.S. today of “blackmailing the world” in the fight against drug trafficking and being both a promoter of trade and consumption of narcotics. “If someone has failed and, rather than failure, have become promoters of the drug culture, violence, trafficking and consumption there is, in America,” Maduro […]

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Venezuela, National Assembly Deputy claims mafia arms trafficking linked to government

The deputy said that about 90% of the number of homicides in the country are committed with firearms, thus confirming that arms proliferation must be eradicated. The National Assembly deputy, William Ojeda, claimed Sunday the indifference of the national executive against criminal boom and the criminal action that has made ​​Venezuela has the highest murder […]

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Chavez states he most likely will need additional chemotherapy

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that “very likely” need to undergo in the coming days for a fourth cycle of chemotherapy to tackle the cancer that was detected and hoped that this will be the last before his “full recovery”. Read Article

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Colombia, Defense minister seeking cooperation with Venezuela and Ecuador (Border Issues)

Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón, said Monday that presidential orders seek to meet with their counterparts in Venezuela and Ecuador to seek a cooperative approach: “The order is dialogue with my counterparts in Venezuela, Ecuador and other nations and obviously expect to work in a cooperative attitude, that’s the attitude we have and that’s the […]

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Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela public areas crime ridden and neglected

Of the the many places and phials that abounds in the city there are few that are in good condition. The majority of places are completely neglected.In a tour it was found that monuments and meeting places for recreational public they serve the Guyanese now play a different role for which they were enabled, beggars […]

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N33: Hackers attack those against Chavez

The N33 group has hacked the accounts of several public figures Twitter opposed to Venezuela President Hugo Chavez. Already announced that his next goal will be Alberto Federico Ravell, editor lapatilla.com and former director of news channel Globovision. File: Inside Hacker logo.svg Will you have to worry Anonymous for this new group of hackers? Apparently […]

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African Snail alert in Venezuela

In the presence of the species Giant African Snail (Achatina fulica) in various sectors of Carabobo state, the People’s Ministry for the Environment (Minamb), through the Directorate Environmental Carabobo State Authority, made ​​a called the community to be alert to their appearance and take necessary preventive measures for collection and control in the region. Carabobo […]

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Venezuela, military plans on setting up gold zones to control mining operations

The head of the Strategic Operational Command (CEO), Henry Rangel Silva, explained that approval of this plan would be aimed at ensuring safety in the development of the gold mining industry between large international, national and small-scale miners. Read Article

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Eleven people resuced this weekend on Venezuela’s beaches

A total of 11 attempts immersion and 15 cases of missing children parents were cared for by guardians of the beaches during the first weekend of September on the beaches of Higuerote and Rio Chico, and was announced by Secretary of Prevention and Emergency Miranda State and Civil Protection director general of regional, Victor Lira. […]

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Chavez warns NATO plans invasion of Venezuela

President Republic Bolivarian Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez warned the world and the people on the claims of NATO to invade the sovereignty of Venezuela. In this regard, he recalled in a recent speech by U.S. President Barack Obama would ensure that “Libya method could be applied to any other country in the fight against terrorism.” Read […]

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Venezuela losing doctors because low salaries, insecurity in hospitals, inadequate infrastructure

Tired of low wages, alarmed by the insecurity prevailing in hospitals and disappointed at the inadequate staffing and infrastructure faced by health centers in the state, in the last year have migrated to other countries twice as many doctors that form the core Aragua.Así universities reported by the President of the College of Physicians of […]

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Colombia, police destroy ten clandestine airstrips

Colombia announced the destruction of 10 clandestine airstrips Colombian police on Saturday presented to the press 23 of the detainees, some of them pilots of aircraft. At least ten were clandestine airstrips used by Colombian drug organization Daniel “Loco” Barrera for sending drugs to the U.S. will be destroyed in Colombia and Venezuela, Colombian police […]

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Venezuela, rate of violent deaths make it one of the most dangerous countries in Latin America

Recorded between 48 and 57 murders per 100,000 people, depending on who makes the measurement. August wrote himself with red blood in the streets of Caracas, where 563 people died (more than 85 percent killed) in the most violent month of this year and could end up running around the country with more than 19 […]

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