The New York Times
Monday, December 3, 2007 - 00:00
Voters in this country narrowly defeated a proposed overhaul to the constitution in a contentious referendum over granting President Hugo Chavez sweeping new powers
Sunday, December 2, 2007 - 00:00
This referendum is too important to miss. Opponents are calling for a massive “no” vote. For the sake of Venezuela’s battered democracy, voters should heed the call
Sunday, December 2, 2007 - 00:00
Hugo Chavez and I worked together for many years. I supported him through thick and thin, serving as his defense minister. But now, having recently retired, I find myself with the moral and ethical obligation as a citizen to express my opposition
Sunday, December 2, 2007 - 00:00
The new film, “Fraud, Mexico 2006,” lays out in detail the arguments of leftists who say the combination of a smear campaign and fraud at polling places swung the election to President Calderon
Friday, November 30, 2007 - 00:00
If the referendum is approved, government accounting is expected to become still harder to fathom, and foreign businesses, many of them already afraid to invest, will find Venezuela even more forbidding
Friday, November 30, 2007 - 00:00
Three days before a referendum that would vastly expand the powers of President Hugo Chavez, this city’s streets were packed on Thursday with tens of thousands of opponents
Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 00:00
Banks, shops, schools and public transportation were closed in cities across Bolivia on Wednesday as demonstrators protested a proposed constitutional overhaul
Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 00:00
Like the Russian leader, Chavez has already used gushing oil revenue, a pliant judiciary, subservient institutions and the galvanizing appeal of vitriolic anti-Americanism to concoct a 21st-century, gulag-free authoritarianism
Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 00:00
The shipment, seized on Oct. 31 in this sleepy Pacific port, was destroyed as the United States Congress considered a plan to give Mexico $1 billion in aid over the next two years
Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday that he would sever ties with Colombia’s government and its president, Alvaro Uribe, in an escalation of a dispute