Venezuela

Imagine a labor law written by workers.... Posted Jun 2, 2012

More than 130 countries of the United Nations met Sept. 20-22 to review progress toward the Millennium Development Goals.... Posted Oct 3, 2010

While U.S. focuses on troops and control of airport.... Posted Jan 20, 2010

A summit of African and South American leaders convened on the Venezuelan-Caribbean island of Margarita Sept. 26-27. The gathering was a follow-up to the first Africa-South America Summit held in Abuja, Nigeria, in November 2006.... Posted Oct 12, 2009

President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela took advantage of his recent visit to the United Nations to meet a group of workers in New York City on Sept. 23. A large group of labor unionists came, including a five-person delegation representing workers at the Stella D’Oro Co., who have been fighting for their jobs for more than a year.... Posted Oct 10, 2009

Workers World welcomes President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, who will be attending the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Progressives in the United States must also find ways to express their solidarity with another Latin American leader, President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras.... Posted Sep 23, 2009

Right-fielder and batting-champion Magglio Ordóñez is arguably the most popular and well-respected member of the Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball team. Ordóñez, along with fellow Tigers Carlos Guillén, Miguel Cabrera and Armando Galarraga, played for the Venezuelan national team during the World Baseball Classic tournament.... Posted Apr 5, 2009

The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ordered the seizure of a rice processing plant owned by U.S agribusiness giant Cargill on March 4, after the company defied new price-control regulations on rice.... Posted Mar 15, 2009

The struggle amongst the Venezuelan people for a socialist revolution has far from died as the media would have you believe.... Posted Feb 18, 2009

In protest of the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza, Venezuela expelled the Israeli ambassador from its country on Jan. 6.... Posted Jan 14, 2009

The large majority of participants came from the former colonial countries, what today is called “the South.” About an equal number were from Asia and Africa; more came from Latin America, since there was a large Cuban and Venezuelan participation. There were both East and West Europeans.... Posted Nov 8, 2008

While the Bush gang in Washington and its counterparts in London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Tokyo were turning over the public treasury to financiers, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was releasing government funds to a bank designated to make loans to popular projects in that country’s poorer communities.... Posted Oct 30, 2008

As the lame-hawk Bush administration finishes its last four months, Washington has accelerated its efforts to overthrow the most progressive elected Latin American governments. ... Posted Sep 26, 2008


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