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  Hugo Batalla Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Hugo Batalla Parentini (born 1926-07-11, died 1998-10-03), Uruguayan politician, was Vice-President of Uruguay from 1995 to 1998 during the presidency of Julio María Sanguinetti.
Batalla was elected diputado for the Department of Montevideo from 1962-66 and 1967-71, and was President of the Chamber of Representatives from 1968-69.
Batalla rejoined the Colorado Party for the elections of 1994-11-27 and was elected Vice-President of the Republic.
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 INTER AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Hugo Batalla, a Lawyer specialized in criminal and constitutional laws, was also a journalist.
Batalla's activities both in the private and public domains, at the national and internaional levels, was remarkably fruitful.
In 1985, when the constitutional regime was restablished in Uruguay, Batalla restarted his political activities, and got a bench at the Senate for the period 1985-1990 as a member of the PGP (Movement for a Popular Government) fraction, which at that time was a part of the Frente Amplio coalition.
www.correo.com.uy /filatelia/frames/9941c_ingles.htm   (676 words)

  
 Press release - Seoul No.8
Mr Batalla was pleased to be able to announce that Mr Fatos Nana, former Prime Minister of Albania, in prison on charges of falsification of documents and embezzlement, was amnestied in March this year, and that the Committee was closing his case.
Mr Batalla said the Committee was still "deeply preoccupied" by the death threats against Mr Sam Rainsy, a member of the Parliament of Cambodia and a prominent critic of the government, who had been stripped of his parliamentary seat and expelled from his party.
Mr Batalla said he was happy to announce the release of three parliamentarians from Gambia, whose cases had been before the Committee, stressing however the duty of the Gambian authorities to provide redress for what they have suffered.
www.ipu.org /press-e/seoul8.htm   (2291 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Uruguay - Broad Front | Uruguayan Information Resource
In February 1971, Colorado Party dissident senators Zelmar Michelini (who was later assassinated in 1976) and Hugo Batalla formed the left-of-center Broad Front coalition in a bid to break the historical two-party system of Colorados and Blancos.
The PDC and PGP withdrew from the alliance in February and March 1989, respectively, over the issue of presidential candidacies and the leftist control of the organization.
Batalla's PGP, which accounted for about 40 percent of the alliance's electoral votes in 1984, had been responsible for eleven of the Broad Front's twenty-one representatives and three of its six senators.
reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/uruguay/uruguay124.html   (839 words)

  
 Arena Space
This political crusade was baptized by the government as the “Batalla de Santa Inés”.
In order to create the Batalla de Santa Inés program, the database containing the information of all Venezuelan voters must have been extracted from the database of the CNE (National Electoral Council), that is the entity in charge of Venezuelan elections.
Then I saw your BBC interview and it totally changed my perception of who Hugo Chavez really is. I have been wrong and the thousands of non-Venezuelans that wrote to the BBC praising you and your acts have been right.
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 The Language Warehouse Spanish Basic Course Texts
Ayer en Argentina las autoridades dijeron que un comando de guerrilleros izquierdistas había entrado a Chile y sostuvo una batalla con la policía militar chilena, la cual capturó y fusiló a cinco izquierdistas.
Fuerzas especiales de la policía ganaron una batalla contra miembros de un comando subversivo en un sector residencial de la zona suroeste de esta ciudad, muriendo en la acción un agente y dos extremistas.
Un policía que tomó parte en la batalla dijo que desde una casa sitiada por la policía se lanzó una granada contra una patrulla de policías, resultando muerto un agente.
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 venepoetics
She says it and lifts to the sky a prayer of eternal gratitude "for my commander Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías," whose job program has made possible the Christmas mega-store that took over the sidewalk in front of the main headquarters of Petróleos de Venezuela, in La Campiña.
All for the benefit of the neighbors of that area who can already listen to Alí Primera at all hours and who watch from their window the parade of empty cans that roll toward the avenue.
With that trick, Hugo Chávez has lasted 1,785 days since he assumed the presidency and swore to reduce poverty.
venepoetics.blogspot.com /2004/12/el-rancho-en-la-cabeza-elizabeth.html   (420 words)

  
 Press release No.61   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Senator Hugo Batalla, Vice-President of Uruguay and President of the Uruguayan Senate, today was elected Chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Union's (IPU) Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians.
The election of Mr Batalla took place on the first day of the Committee's 76th session, being held at the headquarters of the IPU in Geneva from 27 to 30 January.
Senator Batalla, a lawyer specializing in penal law and a leading human rights defender in his country notably during the military rule, has been a member of the Committee since 1988 - first as a substitute member, then a titular member, and vice-chairman in 1996.
www.ipu.org /press-e/gen61.htm   (481 words)

  
 Embezzlement in Venezuela | www.vcrisis.com | printer friendly version
Prior to the announcement by Electoral authorities of the start of the campaign leading to the recall, the president was already vociferous in that regard.
Such historical event was chosen by Hugo Chavez to promote amongst his followers the adoption of a lethal prosecuting plan against the fascists and corrupt oligarchy bent to oust him.
For instance the lack of investigation in relation to the acceptance of Hugo Chavez of $1.5 million for his presidential campaign back in 1.998 from the Spanish bank BBVA, or more recently, the leakage of information in regards to PDVSA’s bond buyback that has made a few millionaires the past weeks.
www.vcrisis.com /print.php?content=letters/200407011132   (538 words)

  
 VENEZUELA NEWS BULLETIN No. 1014
It was added as proof that Maria Corina Machado did support the dictatorial government that briefly replaced Hugo Chavez after a coup in April of 2002.
Ahora, el orden de batalla es el ataque frontal, para derrotar al enemigo por completo.” De acuerdo, General.
Un coronel patriótico le explica que una batalla decisiva en una campaña militar es aquella que determina el desenlace de la guerra, porque logra destruir el grueso de las fuerzas enemigas, haciendo, de esta manera, imposible que continúe la contienda marcial.
www.franz-lee.org /files/pandemonium01014.html   (13450 words)

  
 VHeadline.com - Chavez Frias: We're ready to begin the true battle of the Presidential recall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Hugo Chavez Frias: We're ready to begin the true battle of the Presidential recall
President of the Republic Hugo Chavez, in a national broadcast from Miraflores Palace, characterized Thursday's convening of the recall referendum as "a day of victory for our Constitution." He told the opposition not to "declare victory ahead of time, because I haven't started yet.
Al estudiar los diferentes porcentajes que maneja y que le suministraron los partidos políticos que lo apoyan, el presidente Hugo Chávez afirmó que "creo que vamos a referendo revocatorio".
www.vheadline.com /readnews.asp?id=21474   (1397 words)

  
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Educated as a lawyer, Batalla defended several political prisoners during the dictatorship.
Batalla was decorated by France and Italy for his human rights efforts, and until his death was a member of the Human Rights Committee of the World Parliamentary Union.
With the return of democracy to Uruguay in 1984, Batalla became a senator with the PPG until 1990.
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 Breaking News Venezuela: Chavez's supporters seize church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Clearly, Jesse Jackson is the reasonable one; Chavez is a humanitarian; and Pat Robertson is a cult leader who belongs in jail for advocating the assassination of innocent, democratically elected foreign leaders.
Let's see, if Pat's critics had their way, Pat would be in jail for words that he said, and Hugo Chavez would succeed in turning Venezuela into another Cuban-style dictatorship.
Hugo has a lot more money (in the form of oil) and when people are poor, they look up to those that have the money.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1478663/posts   (1772 words)

  
 Uruguay - GOVERNMENT
As Uruguay returned formally to democratic rule in 1985, the armed forces continued to exercise a degree of tutelage over national affairs, despite their depoliticized role.
Sanguinetti's defense minister was a retired lieutenant general, Hugo M. Medina (the only military defense minister to serve in the 1980s), who as army commander in chief had refused to serve subpoenas on military officers.
A poll commissioned by Búsqueda in September 1986 found that an overwhelming majority of Montevideo's population believed, to varying degrees, that the military was still a factor in political power; only 10 percent believed that the military had no power.
www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/uruguay/GOVERNMENT.html   (13639 words)

  
 RELIGION Y REVOLUCIÓN
President Hugo Chavez Frias' enemies refer to him as a "terrorist" and a "communist." Indeed, Venezuela's current conflict could become a test for the meaning of words; not only the insults, but concepts like democracy.
June 29 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Several people were attacked this Sunday by opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who angrily protested an electoral information tent set up by supporters of the President at the upper-class neighborhood of Alto Prado, in eastern Caracas.
The minute some halfway decent government in Latin America begins to reverse the order of things and give the have-nots a break from the grind of poverty and wretchedness, the usual suspects in El Norte rouse themselves from the slumber of indifference and start barking furiously about democratic norms.
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 You are invited to meet
Venezuela is the 5th largest oil exporter but 80% of its population, mainly people of African and Indigenous descent, has lived in poverty.
President Hugo Chávez was elected in 1998 to reclaim the oil revenue to tackle poverty.
His programme was ratified by landslides in August’s presidential referendum and October’s regional elections.
www.globalwomenstrike.net /English2004/Marisol.htm   (200 words)

  
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Last year's conference, held in Madrid, was the focus of a dispute when Spain invited Cuba to attend the event as an observer.
At that time, Baraibar and the President of the Uruguayan Senate, Hugo Batalla, expressed their disagreement, saying that Cuba should be invited to the conference as a full, participatory member.
Pointing to the fact that Cuba is serving as the vice president of the Latin American Parliament, PARLATINO -- as well as the Pope's recent visit to the island -- Baraibar told reporters in Montevideo that Cuba WILL take part as a full member in the upcoming conference to be held in Uruguay.
www.radiohc.org /Distributions/Radio_Havana_English/.1998/98_jan/rhc-eng-01.29.98   (685 words)

  
 Breaking News Venezuela: Chavez's supporters seize church | www.vcrisis.com
A church located southeast of Caracas in "Barrio El Winche" of Fila de Mariches and attended by the congregation of Laura Sisters and the Salesian Fathers has been invaded and taken over by supporters of Hugo Chavez, El Universal reports today.
Members of Endogenous Battle Units (Unidades de Batalla Endógenas or UBE) -a Chavez invention to create a new democratic model of popular support- expressed that the action was taken in order to establish, in the church, a post of military security that shall be manned by Venezuela's National Guard.
UBE's coordinator, María Cecilia Cárdenas, stated that the whole community was behind the invasion and not only members of her group.
www.vcrisis.com /index.php?content=letters/200509061524   (280 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The president of Cuba_s Parliament, Ricardo Alarcon and Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina, also paid their respects to the late Uruguayan leader.
Uruguayan vice president Hugo Batalla was buried with honors in Montevideo, the Uruguayan capital.
Batalla, who was 72, died of cancer on Saturday.
www.radiohc.org /Distributions/Radio_Havana_English/.1998/98_oct/rhc-eng-10.05.98   (752 words)

  
 WORLD ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Uruguay - The Transition to Democracy, 1984-85   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The UC received 2.5 percent of the vote.
Within the Broad Front's leftist coalition, social democratic Senator Hugo Batalla, who headed List 99, a faction started by Zelmar Michelini in 1971, was the big winner, garnering over 40 percent of the alliance's vote.
For the victorious Colorados, former President Pacheco brought the party 25 percent of its vote.
encyclopaedic.net /world/uruguay/25.php   (569 words)

  
 La Historieta Argentina
Somehow its popularity declines as it is admitted as an art by intellectuals.
La batalla de las Termopilas (The battle of the Thermopilae), Hector Oesterheld/Alberto Breccia, SuperMisterix, 1964
La batalla de las Termopilas (The battle of the Thermopilae)
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 Government : Uruguay
chief of state: President Julio Maria SANGUINETTI (since 1 March 1995) and Vice President Hugo BATALLA (since 1 March 1995); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government as well as the Senate president
head of government : President Julio Maria SANGUINETTI (since 1 March 1995) and Vice President Hugo BATALLA (since 1 March 1995); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government as well as the Senate president
Judicial branch: Supreme Court, judges are nominated by the president and elected for 10-year terms by the General Assembly
www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/GeogHist/geography/gov/govcountries/U/uruguay.html   (394 words)

  
 Uruguay Government 1997 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
chief of state: President Julio Maria SANGUINETTI (since 1 March 1995) and Vice PresidentHugo BATALLA (since 1 March 1995); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government as well as the Senate president
head of government : President Julio Maria SANGUINETTI (since 1 March 1995) and Vice PresidentHugo BATALLA (since 1 March 1995); note - the president is both the chiefof state and head of government as well as the Senate president
Judicial branch Supreme Court, judges are nominated by the president and elected for10-year terms by the General Assembly
www.photius.com /wfb1997/uruguay/uruguay_government.html   (526 words)

  
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URUGUAY INVITES CUBA TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS OF IBEROAMERICAN PARLIAMENTS Montevideo, May 7(RHC)-- Uruguay has invited Cuba to participate in the 9th Conference of Presidents of Iberoamerican Parliaments to take place from the 15th to the 17th of this month in Montevideo.
Uruguayan Vice President Hugo Batalla, who sent the invitation to Cuba's Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon, pointed out that the Caribbean nation's presence is imperative.
The Uruguayan official added that Cuba occupies a seat in the Latin American Parliament, known as PARLATINO.
www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/98-05cari/Radio_Havana_Cuba,_May_7,_1998_   (1663 words)

  
 NotiSur - Latin American Political Affairs; December 2, 1994
According to Uruguayan law, a party can run up to three presidential candidates, with the top vote-getter in the winning party becoming president.
Sanguinetti and his vice president, Hugo Batalla of the Partido por el Gobierno del Pueblo, will take office on March 1, 1995.
The pre-election predictions of a virtual three-way tie proved accurate as Sanguinetti's Partido Colorado eked out the victory, taking 31.4% of the vote.
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 [22 Oct 1995] GA/8963 : SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE MEETING OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY BEGINS AT HEADQUARTERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Credit must also be given to the sterling service rendered by the specialized agencies, whose work in such areas as health, education and agriculture may not have captured headlines but has contributed to a better world.
HUGO BATALLA, Vice-President of Uruguay: In terms of its population and the size of its armed forces, Uruguay is the world's major contributor of personnel to peace-keeping operations.
Nevertheless, these operations cannot be transformed into the Organization's priority objective.
www.un.org /news/Press/docs/1995/19951022.ga8963.html   (7919 words)

  
 Guyz, what Cologne are you using?
IM USING COOL WATER DEEP AND HUGO BOSS.
I've been a pimp so long, I knew Gandhi when he had an afr0.
I just Love it when guys wear Hugo or Curve......old school sh!tt.......mmmmmm yummy
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 Perla Batalla - Perla Batalla: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Perla Batalla - Perla Batalla: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more
Perla Batalla - Perla Batalla: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more
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 Welcome to Uruguay
chief of state: President Julio Maria SANGUINETTI (since 1 March 1995) and Vice President Hugo BATALLA (since 1 March 1995); note—the president is both the chief of state and head of government; the vice-president is also the Senate president
head of government: President Julio Maria SANGUINETTI (since 1 March 1995) and Vice President Hugo BATALLA (since 1 March 1995); note—the president is both the chief of state and head of government; the vice-president is also the Senate president
note: Hugo BATALLA and host of People's Government Party (PGP) have rejoined the Colorado Party
www.middleeastnews.com /Uruguay.html   (1084 words)

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