breakthrough.‘Hugo Chávez and his co-religionaries have called for 21st-century socialism, not a return to Soviet-style economics.’ (Photograph: Handout/Reuters) Chávez’s Economics Lesson for Europe Hugo Chávez’s rejection of the neoliberal policies dragging Europe down sets a hopeful example to Greece and beyond by Richard Gott Some years ago, travelling on the presidential plane of Hugo Chávez [...]
Hugo Chávez weeps as he prays for his recovery from cancer at a mass in Barinas, Venezuela. Photograph: Reuters A tearful Hugo Chávez has prayed for God to spare his life as he attended a pre-Easter mass on returning from cancer treatment in Cuba. The Venezuelan president wept in a televised speech from the Catholic service in [...]
Chavez underwent four rounds of chemotherapy following initial surgeries last year [Reuters] Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home nearly three weeks after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba. Chavez’s return on Friday should reassert his leadership, calm anxiety among supporters and quell whispers of a brewing succession struggle behind the scenes. Chavez smiled and waved as [...]
Beating Up on Chavez By Stephen Lendman January 20, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Since inaugurated in February 1999, he’s faced open US hostility, including by go-along major media scoundrels. New York Times writer Simon Romero‘s among them. On January 6, he and William Neuman played both Chavez [...]
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega called CELAC a “death sentence” for the Monroe Doctrine [EPA] Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has exuberantly hosted Latin American leaders in a bid to create a new regional body that is intended to counter the United States. The Friday inauguration of the 33-member Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), [...]
Abbas met Chavez in Caracas on Wednesday. CARACAS, Venezuela (Ma’an) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday welcomed his counterpart Mahmoud Abbas in the capital. The leftist Chavez has long championed the Palestinian cause and has hosted Abbas on previous occasions. Before meeting Abbas at the presidential palace in Caracas, Chavez reiterated his support [...]
Chávez condemns Wall Street protest ‘crackdown’ Venezuelan president attacks US ‘repression’ of activists and calls Republican hopeful Mitt Romney crazy Venezuela‘s President Hugo Chávez has attacked the ‘US crackdown’ on anti-Wall Street protests. Photograph: Ho/REUTERS Hugo Chávez has condemned the “horrible repression” of anti-Wall Street protesters and described a US Republican presidential candidate as “crazy” for [...]
What Is Hugo Chávez Up To? by Joshua Kucera Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has set alarms ringing with his efforts to create a global anti-American coalition. When Muammar al-Qaddafi faced worldwide condemnation this past winter as he brutally struck back against a popular uprising, the Libyan dictator may have taken comfort from knowing he had [...]
