...2008/WORLD/americas/09/11/russia.venezuela/index.html Russian bombers in Venezuela amid tension with U.S. (CNN) -- Two Russian bombers have landed...Tu-160 strategic bombers landed at Venezuela's Libertador military airfield and "...might hold joint naval maneuvers with Venezuela in the Caribbean. The declaration came...bombers should need to land in Venezuela, we would not object to that...

Venezuela: The Nationalisation of Banco de Venezuela By Alan Woods 02/08/08 "ICH' -- - In a television programme broadcasted to the whole of the country on July 31st, President Ch

6/19/2008: Intel News Brief: Venezuela Harboring Hezbollah: Amid growing concerns that Hezbollah... United States Treasury Department today accused Venezuela of harboring Hezbollah "facilitators and fundraisers."... troubling to see the Government of Venezuela employing and providing safe harbor to ... Lebanon and facilitated their travel to Venezuela, according to Treasury. This designation comes ...

... influence over the electoral machinery, so similar to Mugabe. Or Bush, for that matter. In Mugabe's case, there's also organised violence against the opposition, which i'm not aware of in Venezuela. He scores against Robbo on that count. The recall vote against him in 2004: "The recall vote itself was held on August 15, 2004. A record number of voters turned out to defeat the ...

... observers, you might have a point. Democracy and pro-Americanism in the developing world are not the same thing, much as right-wing ideologues might like them to be... [no, I don't particularly support his populist economic or social policies, but the people of Venezuela do and they're the ones whose choice it is...] -- John Band john at johnband dot org www.johnband.org

... shipped special cargos of cheap oil directly to London. Presumably the buses still get fuelled in their depots using diesel distributed in the usual way, from the usual sources (probably not Venezuela). So, did Chavez remit the subsidy as cash, directly to Ken? And did any actually arrive, anyway? It's also unclear what concrete help TfL has actually provided to deal...

..., 7:52 pm, alex_t <atereshche...@googlemail.com> wrote: Good on him for cancelling the shameful deal! Yeah. Instead of doing a deal with the elected government that benefited people in Venezuela and people in London, we should have invaded the country, killed several hundred thousand people and handed the oilfields to companies owned by Dick Cheney. That wouldn't be at all shameful.

... a deal with Chavez and co. isn't to their taste, but doubling bus and tram fares for the poor is apparently perfectly OK (as, presumably, is fuelling buses from Saudi oil or even paying Venezuela market rate for it).  It's a shame they had to lie about the reasons, however. In comparison Livingstone (whose ideology, such as it is, is personal) is at heart a pragmatist who'll ...

... a deal with Chavez and co. isn't to their taste, but doubling bus and tram fares for the poor is apparently perfectly OK (as, presumably, is fuelling buses from Saudi oil or even paying Venezuela market rate for it). It's a shame they had to lie about the reasons, however. In comparison Livingstone (whose ideology, such as it is, is personal) is at heart a pragmatist who'll take any...

...=14411 EE.UU. pide a Venezuela que explique su relacion con...Ciertamente instamos al Gobierno de Venezuela a que aclare el prop...extranjera. En alusión a Venezuela y Ecuador, Shannon agregó que...que 'ellos (el Gobierno de Venezuela) aclaren el propósito de...Shannon evadió contestar directamente si Venezuela sería incluida en la...tiene pruebas contundentes de que Venezuela está armando o financiando a...