Jan 9, 2012 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez lavished each other with praise on Monday, mocked U.S. disapproval and joked about having an atomic bomb at their disposal. "Despite those arrogant people who do not wish us to be together, we will unite forever," the Iranian president told Venezuela's socialist leader Chavez at the ...
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Bloomberg: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hinted that the U.S. may be behind a “very strange” bout of cancer affecting several leaders aligned with him in South America. Chavez, speaking a day after Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, said the Central Intelligence Agency was behind chemical experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s ...
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelan police rescued Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos on Friday, two days after he was kidnapped, officials announced. Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said on state television that Ramos was "safe and sound" and that he was rescued by police. He said the circumstances weren't immediately clear. Information Minister Andres Izarra initially ...
Continue ReadingNov 10, 2011 18 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Miami Herald: President Hugo Chávez’s cancer is spreading faster than expected and his doctors fear that he may have only a few months left to live, a former U.S. government official said Wednesday, citing sources inside the Venezuelan government. “The international team of doctors in charge of treating Hugo Chávez’s cancer does not expect him to ...
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Mayor Praises #OccupyOakland After 10 Cops Hurt, Millions In Damage: “Good Day For The 99% Movement”
Nov 5, 2011 12 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
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Oct 22, 2011 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Al Arabiya: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday expressed anger over the death of Muammar Qaddafi, calling it an “outrage” and saying the ousted Libyan strongman was a “martyr.” “Sadly the death of Qaddafi has been confirmed,” said Chavez, who had just returned to Venezuela from cancer treatment in Cuba. “They assassinated him. It is another ...
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Friday that he will return to Cuba to begin a new phase of cancer treatment that will include chemotherapy. Chavez said he would go to Havana on Saturday "to begin what we've called the second phase." Chavez said he was sending a letter to the president ...
Continue ReadingMay 17, 2011 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Jerusalem Post: BERLIN – The Iranian government is moving forward with the construction of rocket launch bases in Venezuela, the German daily Die Welt wrote in its Thursday edition. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is Teheran’s most important South American ally. Iran is building intermediate- range missile launch pads on the Paraguaná Peninsula, and engineers from a construction firm ...
Continue ReadingMay 16, 2011 7 Comments ›› Angelia
Reuters: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress he would start tapping into federal pension funds on Monday to free up borrowing capacity as the nation hits the $14.294 trillion legal limit on its debt. The Treasury will issue $72 billion in bonds and notes on Monday, pushing the nation right up against its borrowing cap at some ...
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A fire and a series of explosions tore through a military arms depot Sunday, killing one person and leading authorities to evacuate thousands of people. (Jan. 30)
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – President Hugo Chavez has given himself the equivalent of a big Christmas present in congress: a package of laws that dramatically expand his powers and allow him to undermine opponents in one of the boldest moves of his presidency. In a single week, he has used an outgoing National Assembly packed ...
Continue ReadingDec 15, 2010 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday asked congress to grant him special powers to enact laws by decree for one year, just before a new legislature takes office with a larger contingent of opposition lawmakers. The measure would give the president the ability to bypass the National Assembly for the fourth ...
Continue ReadingDec 5, 2010 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington (AP) - In a case of closing the barn door after the horses are out, federal employees are being warned not to look at documents leaked by WikiLeaks website, noting that despite their wide release, the hundreds of thousands of stolen papersare still classified by the U.S. government. An internal memo sent late last ...
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Haaretz: The United States and its European allies are putting together a new offer for talks with Iran over its nuclear program, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The newspaper cited a senior U.S. official as saying the Obama administration and its partners were "very close to having an agreement" on a position to present to ...
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