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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
Russian warships have arrived for joint exercises with Venezuela's navy, the first deployment of its kind in the Caribbean since the Cold War
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
When confronted with massive challenges — and forming a "hemispheric partnership" certainly qualifies — it helps to frame prescribed policy changes in terms of sheer self-interest. This report does so deftly
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
It seems doubtful that Chavez, whose second and final six-year term ends in 2012, emerged with sufficient palanca, or leverage, to again seek a constitutional amendment that would allow him to be re-elected indefinitely
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
From Caracas, the Guardian's Latin America correspondent, Rory Carroll, reports on the results of Venezuela's local and regional elections
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
From the hardened slums of this city to some of Venezuela’s most populous and economically important states, many of President Hugo Chavez’s supporters deserted him
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
Allies of President Hugo Chavez won 17 of 22 races for governor in Sunday's local elections, but the opposition won the two most populous states
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
President Medvedev visits Venezuela this week as a Russian nuclear warship leads joint maneuvers
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
US vessels have been making frequent calls. The island also hosts US surveillance planes
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
Collapsing oil prices have sharply curtailed his ability to buy public sympathies, and Barack Obama’s election has removed the United States as a convenient foe
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
The attacks against journalists, which run from threats hissed on their cellphones to grenades lobbed into their newsrooms, form a new front in the larger war the drug cartels are waging