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	Daily News - eluniversal.com
		Mohammad Khatami, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran arrived Friday morning in Miraflores presidential palace to enter into several agreements, most of them related to energy.
		The Iranian president arrived in Venezuela Thursday afternoon as part of a tour focused on the execution of energy agreements by the two OPEC member countries that overtly run counter to Washington policies.
		Earlier, he attended the summit of the Organization of Oil Exporting Countries (OPEC) in 2000 and the summit of the Group of 15 in 2004.
	www.eluniversal.com /2005/03/11/en_pol_art_11A540381.shtml (206 words)

	Miraflores - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Miraflores is the name of several places in Spanish-speaking countries.
		Miraflores (Colombia), either in the Boyacá or Guaviare departments of Colombia
		Miraflores (Chile), residential suburb in V Region, Vina del Mar, Chile
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miraflores (108 words)

	BDP International
		Miraflores has been off-limits to protesters since a coup was triggered in April by a demonstration that ended with 19 people dead and more than 100 injured.
		Chavez and his ministers say a march on Miraflores, located in a downtown bastion of government support, would be a deliberate attempt to provoke confrontation and topple the president by force in a repeat of the April coup.
		He is sticking to a date in August, halfway through his current term, when he says the constitution allows for a binding referendum on his mandate.
	www.bdpinternational.com /news/advisories/al_200212311700.asp (739 words)

	Chavez Declares Recall Victory With 58% Majority
		Suppporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez celebrate in front of Miraflores Palace in Caracas, August 16, 2004.
		Chavez, dressed in a red shirt, appeared on the balcony of his Miraflores presidential palace in downtown Caracas and led hundreds of supporters in singing the national anthem before dawn.
		Chavez, who tried to seize power in a coup in 1992 but won a presidential election in 1998, is detested by Venezuela's traditional ruling elite, who say he has squandered the world's largest oil reserves outside the Middle East.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0816-01.htm (749 words)

	The Big Story: Venezuela's Watergate
		Above, National Guard soldiers throw tear gas at members of the opposition of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez April 11, 2002 behind Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela.
		Police and armed Chavez supporters marched with 150,000 opposition protesters near the presidential palace resulting in the death of at least 12 people and 110 wounded, officials said.
		When the video was broadcast, Chavez interrupted its transmission, improvising an address to the nation as his opponents and sympathizers battled outside Miraflores.
	thebigstory.org /int/int-venezuela.html (831 words)

	04/14 03:26
		Chavez landed by helicopter at the palace as thousands of his supporters erupted into cheering and singing the national anthem.
		Soldiers on the roof and balcony of the palace raised their fists in solidarity with the protesters.
		Luis Vallana, one of the soldiers of the contingent protecting the palace.
	www.arena.org.nz /venturn1.htm (751 words)

	Mercopress
		"We are ready to go to a presidential referendum", stressed President Hugo Chavez in message to the nation from Miraflores presidential palace.
		The recall vote is meant to help end more than two years of political conflict that for long periods virtually paralyzed the economy of the country, United States fourth supplier of oil.
		This is the 19th attack on city hall," he said, adding that the assault took place "in broad daylight and three blocks from (the presidential palace of) Miraflores".
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=3748 (444 words)

	Venezuela: second march of the Revolutionary Front of Workers of Factories Occupied and under Workers' Control
		On April 4, workers from occupied factories and factories under cogestión (workers' control) marched in Caracas from the National Assembly to the Miraflores presidential palace.
		At the demonstration slogans for the target of 10 million votes for Chavez in the presidential election were combined with socialist slogans: "yes to communism, no to imperialism", "here we are, workers without bosses", amongst others.
		At a certain point the metropolitan police tried to prevent the march from reaching the presidential palace, despite having been authorised by Caracas Mayor Juan Barreto.
	www.marxist.com /venezuela-revolutionary-front-workers070406.htm (1590 words)

	Worldandnation: Venezuelan coup disintegrates
		He described the incidents in Maracay and at the presidential palace as minor problems.
		Marchers surrounded the presidential palace and the main military headquarters.
		Rincon and the heads of the army, navy, air force and national guard saw Chavez at the Miraflores presidential palace Thursday night and demanded he resign.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/04/14/Worldandnation/Venezuelan_coup_disin.shtml (1669 words)

	Voting Without Problems in Venezuela’s Presidential Elections
		Voters line the street in Altagracia, near the presidential palace Miraflores.
		The morning trumpet wake-up call rang from the military barracks at the Presidential Palace of Miraflores, and from the balconies and windows of residents across the capital city of Caracas.
		According to Gladimar Faudito, President of one the voting tables at the center, the center was installed by shortly after 6am, and after the various members in charge of the voting center, including the secretary, the president, the witnesses, and others — voted themselves, then local residents began to enter around 7:30 am.
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /news.php?newsno=2158 (1477 words)

	americas.org - Plot to Kill Chávez? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the early morning of September 19 an explosive was thrown from a vehicle toward the Miraflores Presidential Palace.
		Chávez was inside the palace at the time.
		Sources in the Military Intelligence Directorate (DIM) told VHeadline.com there was “overwhelming evidence of Washington’s planned attack on the presidential flight.” VHeadline.com also reports that the man arrested in DISIP’s September 19 raid in Chacao was a suspect in the bombing of the presidential palace, Jorge Rojas Riera.
	www.americas.org /item_8542 (357 words)

	MiamiHerald.com \| 12/04/2006 \| Chávez easily wins a new term (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		HOWARD YANES/AP Supporter of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez displays his tattoo of the Cuban revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Gevara during celebrations at Miraflores Presidential Palace, Sunday.
		CARACAS - President Hugo Chávez won his third presidential bid in eight years on Sunday, defeating career politician Manuel Rosales and boosting his ''21st Century Socialism,'' which includes widespread social projects, increasing relations with countries such as Cuba and Iran, and diminishing relations with the United States.
		-- your destiny was already written!'' Chávez told the thousands of red-clad supporters who had gathered in front of the presidential palace to celebrate with their leader.
	www.miami.com /mld/miamiherald/16158022.htm (948 words)

	Red Pepper's Venezuela Blog: Chavez Reelected President of Venezuela: 61.4% of Vote
		Diary of a Venezuelan Presidential Election: December 3rd 2006 »
		Click here to view Chavez's speech to the crowds gathered at the Miraflores Presidential Palace shortly after the CNE's announcement.
		Hugo Chavez speaks to supporters in front of Miraflores Presidential Palace, following the announcement by Venezuela's National Electoral Council that he had won reelection with 61.4% of the vote.
	redpepper.blogs.com /venezuela/2006/12/chavez_reelecte.html (378 words)

	smh.com.au - Chavez quits as military join ranks
		A national guard general, Alberto Camacho Kairuz, said the Government had "abandoned its functions" and was under the control of the armed forces.
		Mr Chavez, a left-wing former paratrooper who was elected in 1998, had announced he was taking off the air three private television channels that he said were involved in a plot to topple his government.
		There was panic and confusion near the Miraflores presidential palace as police exchanged shots with unidentified gunmen and rooftop snipers.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/04/12/1018333422940.html (584 words)

	IFEX :: Photojournalist detained, photographs erased (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Malavé was taking photographs of the security perimeter around the presidential palace when he was stopped by an official wearing an identification badge from the Secretariat (Ministerio de la Secretaría de la Presidencia).
		An army major named Pulido explained that a permit was required to take photographs of the area and suggested that the photojournalist erase the images from his digital camera.
		In a separate incident, on 22 January, a group of journalists were attacked as they covered a demonstration by hooded individuals near an educational centre, close to Miraflores Palace.
	www.ifex.org /fr/content/view/full/33360 (404 words)

	ZNet \| Latin America \| Venezuela: Not a Banana-Oil Republic after All
		Then, in the early afternoon, purely by word-of-mouth and the use of cell phones (Venezuela has one of the highest per capita rates of cell phone use in the world), a demonstration in support of Chavez was called at the Miraflores presidential palace.
		By 6 PM about 100,000 people had gathered in the streets surrounding the presidential palace.
		At approximately the same time, the paratrooper battalion, to which Chavez used to belong, decided to remain loyal to Chavez and took over the presidential palace.
	www.zmag.org /content/LatinAmerica/wilpertcounter.cfm (2365 words)

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		Camacho, accompanied by other officers, said he did know exactly where Chavez was, but he made a public call for a group of armored cars around the Miraflores presidential palace to withdraw.
		The violence erupted in the world's fourth-biggest oil exporter after half a million Venezuelans clamoring for Chavez to resign after three years in power had marched to the presidential palace in the capital Caracas earlier on Thursday.
		People scattered and ran for cover in the streets near the presidential palace as police fired tear gas and supporters of the president attacked anti-Chavez protesters.
	www.cyberspaceorbit.com /venzua.htm (767 words)

	TIME.com: Venezuela No Time for Colonels -- Feb. 17, 1992 -- Page 1
		Paratroops and armored units in Caracas, the capital, converged on a nearby air base, the Miraflores presidential palace and La Casona, the official residence of President Carlos Andres Perez.
		But the target of the coup had already left his house and slipped through a secret tunnel into the white, hilltop Miraflores palace in the center of the city.
		Miraflores offered him no security, however, for tanks lined the surrounding streets and the rebels opened fire with mortars and machine guns.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,974914,00.html (817 words)

	Khaleej Times - Online
		CARACAS - Deposed president Hugo Chavez returned by helicopter from detention on a Caribbean island early Sunday and entered the presidential palace in Caracas where he is expected to resume the presidential functions he was ousted from two days ago.
		The vote should also be a pointer to the conduct of critical presidential and general elections next year, when President Olusegun Obasanjo is widely expected to seek re-election.
		As the transitional government decreed that it would "reorganise the branches of government," it retired the justices of the Supreme Court, the federal administrative solicitor and the comptroller of the national treasury.
	www.khaleejtimes.co.ae /ktarchive/140402/theworld.htm (5860 words)

	theage.com.au - Chavez reassumes presidency
		Cabello, who turns 39 tomorrow, took the oath of office before National Assembly President William Lara at the Miraflores presidential palace at 0211 GMT (1211 AEST), said newlyreinstated administration spokesman Rafael Vargas.
		Former Chavez ministers said that the entire Chavez cabinet, with the exception of Chavez himself, had met at the Miraflores palace and delivered a message over the stateowned television network.
		Among the wounded were Chavez supporters who said they were fired upon while demonstrating near the Miraflores presidential palace.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/04/14/1018333454913.html (690 words)

	Venezuela Solidarity \| Chavez: "This is a victory of love, peace and hope"
		At Venezuela's presidential election on 3 December, Hugo Chavez received a massive 63% of the vote with Manuel Rosales on 37%.
		In pouring rain, thousands of cheering supporters have flocked to the Miraflores presidential palace to applaud the president, who has spoken to the people from the balcony of the palace.
		We are writing to alert you to the possibility of organised provocations by the conservative opposition and their US backers at and after the December 3 Venezuelan presidential poll.
	www.venezuelasolidarity.org (2863 words)

	Relief, Exhaustion and Joy as Backers Greet Chávez
		Although the palace had never been under control of the troops who had removed Mr.
		Fiery populist Chavez returned in triumph to his presidential palace following a military coup which collapsed in the face of a rebellion by loyalist troops and massive protests.
		Chávez arrived at Miraflores, ferried from a naval base where the interim government had him in custody, thousands of supporters screamed in joy outside the palace gates.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines02/0415-03.htm (915 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 897 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Dressed in his signature red shirt, Chavez told cheering supporters at his presidential palace late Sunday his landslide was a blow to US President George W Bush's administration, which portrays the leftist as an anti-democratic menace.
		A retired army paratrooper who led a failed military rebellion before his 1998 election, Chavez has survived a brief coup, an oil strike and scores of demonstrations during his seven years in the Miraflores presidential palace.
		Worrying his opponents, Chavez has vowed to use a fresh mandate to scrap presidential term limits and create a single-party that he expects to lead in power for decades.
	thedailystar.net /2006/12/05/d61205013722.htm (503 words)

	Venezuelan television reports Chavez has returned to presidential palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The helicopter is landing in the enclosure of the palate, while the crowd of partisans of Hugo Chavez gathered in Miraflores sings the national anthem.
		The advertisement of the arrival of the president was given simultaneously by the public television Venezolana de Television which diffused immages of the apparatus flying over the palate, to the medium of the applause of collaborators of Hugo Chavez present on the plate.
		Chavez, who was ousted by the military on Friday, arrived at the Miraflores presidential palace shortly after 3 a.m.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/665668/posts (3802 words)

	Thousands Gather Outside Venezuelan Presidential Palace for Chavez Victory Speech
		Caracas, August 16, 2004—Outside the presidential palace, thousands listened to President Hugo Chavez’ victory speech shortly after the country’s only electoral authority (CNE) announced the preliminary results of the presidential referendum which show that a majority of Venezuelans voted to keep Chavez as President of Venezuela.
		Chavez supporters celebrate outside the Presidential palace after his victory in the recall referendum was announced.
		Waving Venezuelan flags and wearing red clothing, Chavez supporters crowded outside Miraflores, the presidential palace, to listen to President Chavez guarantee the constitutional rights of all Venezuelans and even the rights of foreign companies to operate in the country.
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /news.php?newsno=1342 (861 words)

	EastSouthWestNorth: The Presidential Recall Referendum in Venezuela
		Apart from the percentages of the SI versus NO vote, Henry Ramos Allup is claiming that the total number of votes cast is 14.3 million (of which 8.5 million or 59.4% is for SI and 5.8 million or 40.6% is for NO).
		Chávez prevailed by close to 60 percent in both presidential elections, which were judged by us to reflect the will of the people, but a strong opposition force remained determined to remove him from office.
		We criticized the constitutional referendum for being too rushed to allow debate, and we said that some of the national legislative and local election outcomes in 2000 were uncertain given irregularities and poor audits.
	www.zonaeuropa.com /20040816_2.htm (6102 words)

	El Sur
		The 47-year-old Chavez, wearing a camouflage uniform and a red paratrooper's beret, left the Miraflores palace and was driven away in a fl car to armed forces headquarters in Caracas, witnesses said.
		Half a million Venezuelans clamoring for President Hugo Chavez to resign marched to the presidential palace in Caracas on Thursday in a huge protest that marked the most powerful challenge so far to his three-year-old rule.
		Serpa, launching his second presidential bid, has suggested -- without naming names -- that Uribe is the natural candidate of the "paras" (militias) and that a Uribe presidency would result in all-out war.
	elsur.blogspot.com /2002_04_07_elsur_archive.html (5836 words)

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