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CARACAS, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez says he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to “bomb clouds” to create rain amid a severe drought that has aroused public anger due to water and electricity rationing.
Chavez, who has asked Venezuelans to take three-minute showers to save water, said the Cubans [...]

Caracas (AFP) - Residents of the Venezuelan capital face cuts in water service for as much as 48 hours per week, after the government imposed rationing to stem a 25 percent shortfall in the city’s supply, officials said Monday.
Officials said cuts in water service were to be staggered throughout Caracas through the duration of the [...]

FOX News:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told citizens Wednesday to limit their showers to three minutes because the country is having problems supplying water and electricity.
“Some people sing in the shower, in the shower half an hour,” he said during a televised cabinet meeting. “No kids, three minutes is more than enough. I’ve counted, three minutes, [...]

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You’ll need an Amazon.com account to log-in here, so if you have one, great, if not it’s easy to set up, and if you’d rather use a different method, there is the snail mail, and at least one other system which will be set up [...]

Financial Times:
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi have joined forces to urge the world to redefine “terrorism”.
After a summit last weekend for African and South American leaders on the Venezuelan island of Margarita, the two leaders signed a document rejecting attempts to link terrorism to ”the legitimate struggle of the people for liberty [...]

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PORLAMAR, Venezuela – Moammar Gadhafi and Hugo Chavez are strengthening their relationship and finding common ground as two radical former military men who both want to challenge the “imperialism” of wealthy nations and aspire to speak for many poor nations.
The Libyan and Venezuelan leaders were expected to meet one-on-one on Monday, although no public events [...]

PORLAMAR, Venezuela – Iran is helping to detect uranium deposits in Venezuela and initial evaluations suggest reserves are significant, President Hugo Chavez’s government said Friday.
Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz said Iran has been assisting Venezuela with geophysical survey flights and geochemical analysis of the deposits, and that evaluations “indicate the existence of uranium in western parts [...]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Deposed President Manuel Zelaya defied threats of arrest and returned home to Honduras Monday, three months after he was forced into exile at gunpoint.
Seeking safety at the Brazilian Embassy, Zelaya called on his countrymen to come to the capital for peaceful protest.
“It is the moment of reconciliation,” he said Monday during a [...]

(AFP) The United States knew about an abortive coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2002, and may even have taken part, former US president Jimmy Carter has told a Colombian newspaper.
“I think there is no doubt that in 2002, the United States had at the very least full knowledge about the coup, and could [...]

WASHINGTON – Law enforcement agents raided residences in New York City before dawn Monday as part of a terrorism investigation.
One senator briefed Monday by federal law enforcement authorities on the raids said a terrorist attack was not believed to be imminent.
New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne confirmed that searches were conducted in the borough [...]

PARIS, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people, telling a French newspaper that the bombing of Gaza late last year was an unprovoked attack.
“The question is not whether the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They’re doing it openly,” Chavez said in an interview with [...]

Washington Post:
Just over two years ago Barack Obama triggered the first and most enduring foreign policy debate of the presidential campaign when he was asked whether he would “be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba [...]

“Oliver Stone and Hugo Chavez were practically holding hands” - Fox News’s Jennifer Griffin, Venice
Not much of the Left has any problem with Obama as a Communist dictator. They’re moderate like moderate muslims.
VENICE, Italy (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received a movie star welcome Monday at the Venice Film Festival, where he walked the [...]

BOGOTA – Thousands of opponents of Hugo Chavez marched against the Venezuelan president across Latin America on Friday, accusing him of everything from authoritarianism to international meddling.
The protests, coordinated through Twitter and Facebook, drew more than 5,000 people in Bogota, and thousands more in the capitals of Venezuela and Honduras. Smaller demonstrations were held in [...]

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