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	List of Presidents of Venezuela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The President of Venezuela (Spanish: Presidente de Venezuela) is the English political nomenclature that designates both the head of state and head of government of Venezuela.
		The first president, taking office on March 5, 1811, was one of the three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Cristóbal Mendoza.
		President of Congress Octavio Lepage was in charge of the government until Ramón J. Velásquez was elected by Congress on June 4, 1993.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/President_of_Venezuela (611 words)

	Venezuela - The President
		The president is elected by a plurality vote under direct and universal suffrage, serves for five years, and cannot be reelected until after two intervening terms have passed.
		President Carlos Andrés Pérez became the first Venezuelan elected to serve two terms of office under this provision of the 1961 constitution; he won the December 1988 election after having served as president from 1974 to 1979.
		President Pérez's announced policy of privatization of some parts of the public sector could also have an impact on inefficient personnel practices.
	countrystudies.us /venezuela/39.htm (1077 words)

	News - Venezuela - Hugo Chavez - Information - Human Rights Violations - Cuba
		Venezuela is interested to learn about and adopt Malaysia’s success in poverty eradication as 85 per cent of its 25 million population still live in poverty, Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said here Monday.
		President Hugo Chavez imposed restrictions to stem an outflow of dollars from wealthy Venezuelans, who opposed some of his policies to seize private property and raise taxes, and control soaring inflation.
		Venezuela’s international reserves rose to $35 billion this month from $11 billion when the restrictions were imposed.
	www.shark.cc (617 words)

	Narco News: Coup d'etat in Venezuela
		President Hugo Chavez, elected in 1998 and 2000 by landslide margins, was placed under arrest and his held in a military prison.
		Sources close to Chavez say that a number of the deaths were among sympathizers of the president and explained that the metropolitan police had shot against the multitute that surrounded the Miraflores Palace.
		The entire media is against the President." In addition, the analyst said that there is a plot similar to that which defeated Salvador Allende in Chile and it was activated when, a few days ago, the new US Ambassador to Venezuela, by the name of Shapiro, took office.
	www.narconews.com /venezuelacoup1.html (1660 words)

	Press Communique 98/09: Visit of the President of Venezuela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		President Caldera was welcomed by the President of the Court, Judge Stephen M. Schwebel (Unites States of America) and the Registrar, Mr.
		President of the Court and the President of Venezuela (in their original language) can be found on the Website of the Court.
		And it was Venezuela that hosted, in Caracas in the summer of 1974, the first plenary session of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea — the ambitious and auspicious beginning of what was to become a long and arduous process of legal and diplomatic negotiation.
	www.icj-cij.org /icjwww/ipresscom/iPress1998/ipr9809.htm (2126 words)

	Venezuela: President Chavez moves toward total control
		The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez has taken two decisive steps away from democracy by imposing exchange controls and intensifying his offense against the media after surviving a strike that paralyzed the country for eight weeks.
		President Chavez has often publicly incited them to commit crimes when he has ordered them to defend his revolution with weapons or whatever means are available to them and to carry out acts of intimidation and violence against the opposition and the media.
		ISHR PAC urges to support the people of Venezuela during this time of political and economic crisis, when their basic freedoms, human rights and the very essence of democracy are being compromised by the Venezuelan government, an unprecedented number of Venezuelans have lost their jobs, and a vast majority of the population lives in poverty.
	www.ishr.org /press/pr2003/feb03/030214venezuela.htm (611 words)

	Venezuela’s press power, by Maurice Lemoine
		Venezuela’s ’hate media’ controls 95% of the airwaves and has a near-monopoly over newsprint, and it played a major part in the failed attempt to overthrow the president, Hugo Chávez, in April.
		The president was insulted, compared with Idi Amin, Mussolini or Hitler, called a fascist, dictator or tyrant, and subjected to a spate of attacks.
		The Venpres article, signed by a J Valeverde (5), was repudiated by President Chávez and condemned by the defence minister, José Vicente Rangel; it led to the censure and resignation of the director of Venpres, Oscar Navas.
	mondediplo.com /2002/08/10venezuela (2995 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Country profiles \| Country profile: Venezuela
		Venezuela has some of the world's largest proven oil deposits as well as huge quantities of coal, iron ore, bauxite and gold.
		Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, says he is leading the country - which is enjoying a windfall from high oil prices - through a socialist revolution.
		The president has been accused of creating a hostile, intimidatory climate for journalists, while some private media outlets have been criticised for being involved in the opposition movement against him.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/country_profiles/1229345.stm (902 words)

	Venezuela (Harpers.org)
		President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela was reelected in what he called a “mega-election”; Chavez vowed to complete his peaceful social revolution against Venezuela's “rancid oligarchy” by “liquidating our adversaries from the field of battle.” Classes resumed in Myanmar, almost four years after SLORC, the country's military junta, banned higher education.
		Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, warned of “the Vietnamization of the entire Amazon region.” Vietnam returned the body of a Canadian woman, minus one ear, after she was put to death for drug trafficking.
		Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, said that he was still considering declaring a state of emergency, which would allow him to rule by decree, in order to fight poverty.
	www.harpers.org /Venezuela.html (1366 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Venezuela - A Nation On Edge . Hugo Chavez's Neighborhood \| PBS
		Venezuela is the fourth-largest supplier of oil to the United States, providing nearly 15 percent of all U.S. imports.
		The newly elected Latin American presidents are all resistant to market reforms that thus far have failed to bring prosperity to Latin America.
		President da Silva is sympathetic to Hugo Chavez and led an effort to help him negotiate an end to the national strike.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/venezuela/neighborhoodb.html (1267 words)

	ABC 7 News - Chavez Re-Elected President of Venezuela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Leftist President Hugo Chavez won re-election in Venezuela by a wide margin Sunday, giving him free reign for a more radical turn toward socialism and six more years to counter U.S. influence in Latin America and beyond.
		The president insists he is a democrat and will continue to respect private property - though he has boosted state control over the oil industry and has said he might nationalize utilities.
		Venezuela is the world's fifth largest oil exporter and soaring oil prices have made it the continent's fastest growing economy.
	www.wjla.com /news/stories/1206/377529.html (990 words)

	UN Press Conference by President of Venezuela \| Second Vermont Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		President Hugo Chávez Frías of Venezuela, reiterating today his view that a new international body was needed to replace the United Nations system, proposed that Secretary-General Kofi Annan establish a committee of world leaders to diagnose the likely problems and make recommendations to the General Assembly.
		Asked what his country’s agenda would be if it was elected to the Security Council, President Chávez replied that, with the backing of the Non-Aligned Movement, Venezuela would speak the truth and represent the conscience of a majority of the world’s Governments.
		Venezuela’s relationship with its Jewish community was also good, he said, adding, however, that Israel should withdraw from the Golan Heights, which it had captured from Syria in 1967, and recognize the rights of the Palestinian people.
	www.vermontrepublic.org /un_press_conference_by_president_of_venezuela (763 words)

	TRINICENTER.COM - Venezuela and Chávez
		Caracas, Venezuela, December 5, 2006 (Venezuelanalysis.com)- With a large crowd of supporters outside, Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias was officially proclaimed President-elect of Venezuela for the "period of the next 6 years" by the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) yesterday morning, with 7,161,637 votes, 62.89% of the total.
		During a recent visit to the United States, I heard a woman say that she felt Vice President Dick Cheney was an evil man. Her sister, with a different view of the world situation, said she felt all Arabs were evil.
		Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela U.S. News
	www.trinicenter.com /world/venez.shtml (1765 words)

	venezuela map and map of venezuela and information page
		Venezuela emerged from that coalition in 1830 to become an independent nation.
		Since then, and for most of the first half of the 20th century, the country was ruled by generally benevolent military strongmen, who promoted the oil industry and allowed for some social reforms.
		In that regard, the then popular election of President Hugo Chavez in 1999 has now caused considerable controversy, especially within the United States, as Venezuela has some of the largest proven oil reserves outside of the Middle East and President Chavez is using same as a regional threat and bargaining chip.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/samerica/ve.htm (924 words)

	Vice President of Venezuela Says Bush a 'Hypocrite' for Protecting a Terrorist
		The vice president of Venezuela, José Vicente Rangel, criticized the “hypocrisy” of Washington in the fight against terrorism for the obstacles it is imposing on the extradition of presumed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela.
		The vice president congratulated the marchers yesterday [Friday], and expressed his thanks to the government of Guayana for supporting the desire of Venezuela to have the anti-Castro Carriles returned to Caracas.
		Venezuela maintains that the U.S. is required to extradite Carriles under U.N. Security Council antiterrorist agreements and the Montreal Convention on terrorism.
	www.watchingamerica.com /latercera000001.html (383 words)

	Venezuela Hotel - President Hotel Caracas Venezuela
		All of the guest rooms are comfortable and nicely equipped to give a feeling of being home while away from home.
		The hotel also has a variety of facilities and services that are sure to meet the needs of both business and leisure travellers.
		The President Hotel located in Caracas is a 4 star hotel, has an excellent location.
	www.southtravels.com /america/venezuela/presidenthotel/index.html (99 words)

	Venezuela's President Chavez Uncensored — A Jewish Magazine, an Interfaith Movement
		PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ: Ignacio Ramonet recently wrote a piece called “The Media Dictatorship” because most of the media, not only in Venezuela but all over the world as well, they are in the hands of very powerful people.
		PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ: Well, you know that this gentleman – there is ample evidence that this guy is a terrorist, clear evidence that he took part and he masterminded, among many other terrorist attacks, in the blowing the Cuban plane that was coming from Barbados to Caracas.
		But also in Venezuela this person occupied a senior position in the political police force, and there are many evidences of tortures, of people missing as a result of his acts.
	tikkun.org /rabbi_lerner/news_item.2005-11-02.1423002427 (3451 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. dismisses call for Chavez's killing - Aug 23, 2005
		But Venezuela's ambassador to the United States, Bernardo Alvarez, said Robertson was "no ordinary private citizen" and demanded the White House strongly condemn the remarks.
		During her confirmation hearings, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice singled out Venezuela as a "negative force" in the region, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has suggested Venezuela has interfered with the internal affairs of other countries in the region.
		The Rev. Ted Haggard, the president of the National Association of Evangelicals, said Robertson was wrong to recommend the assassination.
	www.cnn.com /2005/US/08/23/robertson.chavez/index.html (1051 words)

	americas.org - Iranian President visits Venezuela, Signs Numerous Economic Agreements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Venezuela’s President Chavez met him at the Caracas International Airport, where he arrived from the 14th Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Havana, and received full military honours.
		The declaration was in reference to the United Nations, where Venezuela is campaigning for a seat as a non-permanent member of the Security Council and where Iran is lobbying for the right to develop nuclear programs it claims are for peaceful means.
		Venezuela and Iran have a long-standing relationship due to both being major oil exporting countries and key members of OPEC.
	www.americas.org /item_29521 (667 words)

	Open letter to Manuel Rosales, future president of Venezuela \| www.vcrisis.com
		Your position suggests that you know how to navigate political waters in Venezuela, but once you enter international ones be very careful for nothing is what is seems and everyone is eager to betray you for a handful of promises.
		I heard him saying "starting 2006, all electoral processes in Venezuela will be absolutely independent from the technical point of view" and you and I know how that lot love gadgets that no one but themselves can learn how to use.
		A good friend of Venezuela from Uruguay conducted an audit of the REP and he found some remarkable stuff in there.
	www.vcrisis.com /index.php?content=letters/200609051305 (1685 words)

	Venezuelan Bolivar and Venezuelan currency information including currency exchange rates
		Venezuela is the world's fifth largest oil exporter and a major supplier of crude oil to the United States.
		Venezuela is a huge exporter of oil and gas; in 2003, 84.9% of their exports were oil and gas.
		Venezuela is home to one of the largest oil reserves outside the Middle East (it is the world's #5 oil producer and OPEC's #3 largest oil exporter).
	www.gocurrency.com /countries/venezuela.htm (1139 words)

	Stories Tagged 'venezuela' » Netscape.com
		News – Anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was heading to re-election on Sunday, according to an exit pollster linked to the government that said preliminary results indicated he had a wide lead.
		News – Anti-U.S. President Hugo Chavez vowed to thwart what he says is an opposition plot to stage a coup and "ruin Venezuelans' Christmas" after an election on Sunday that he expects to win easily.
		Politics – Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez on Sunday promised hundreds of thousands of supporters he would win a resounding victory in his December 3 reelection bid he describes as a challenge to Washington.
	www.netscape.com /tag/venezuela (930 words)

	USATODAY.com - Pat Robertson calls for assassination of Hugo Chavez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Chavez has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of President Bush, accusing the United States of conspiring to topple his government and possibly backing plots to assassinate him.
		Venezuela is the fifth largest oil exporter and a major supplier of oil to the United States.
		Venezuela's government has demanded in the past that the United States crack down on Cuban and Venezuelan "terrorists" in Florida who they say are conspiring against Chavez.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-08-22-robertson-_x.htm (488 words)

	Hugo Chávez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chávez's reforms have evoked exceptional controversy in Venezuela and abroad, receiving both criticism and praise.
		Fedecámaras, a national business federation, and the Confederación de Trabajadores de Venezuela, a federation of labor unions, opposed the approval of the new laws and called for a general business strike on December 10, 2001[4] in the hope that the President would reconsider his legislative action and, instead, open a debate about those laws[5].
		Venezuela's rate of unemployment dropped to 10% in February 2006 from the 2003 high of 20%, which occurred during a two-month strike and business lockout that shut down the country's oil industry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugo_Chavez (8405 words)

	Venezuela inks housing deal with China
		Venezuela and China have signed a US$1.2b deal to build 20,000 homes in the South American country over the next two years, the state news agency said.
		Visiting President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez (L) responds to questions during an impromptu press conference on the tarmac upon his arrival in Beijing, as a Chinese military officer stands behind him.
		President Hugo Chavez, who is visiting Beijing this week on a three-nation tour, has said solving the country's acute housing crisis is a key pillar of his socialist revolution.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /china/2006-08/23/content_671525.htm (438 words)

	Minimizing Mischief in Venezuela, Stabilizing the U.S. Oil Supply
		Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is systematically leading his country into dictatorship by provoking internal conflict and characterizing his internal opponents as traitors.
		Chávez derives popular support from fellow ideologues and a small but committed segment of Venezuela's largely poor population, and he is beginning to use the hemisphere's dependence on Venezuelan oil to encourage leftist movements elsewhere and to pressure other countries into acquiescing to his activities.
		President Chávez's Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) party is allied with the Brazil-based Foro de São Paulo--an organization of some 39 leftist parties and guerrilla organizations from 16 countries in the hemisphere.
	www.heritage.org /Research/LatinAmerica/bg1787.cfm (4546 words)

	Red Pepper's Venezuela Blog: Spanish
		The documentary looks at the impact of neoliberalism on Venezuela, Latin America and other parts of the world and what Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's goverment is doing to stop neoliberalism and create an alternative in Venezuela.
		Thousands of pro-government marchers rally in Venezuela's capital Caracas on Saturday, Sep. 9, 2006, to hear President Hugo Chavez swear in his electoral campaign workers in advance of December's presidential elections.
		Anzoátegui Governor Tarek William Saab, centre, Chile's ambassador to Venezuela Claudio Huepe, right, and vice-president of the National Assembly Dr. Desire Santos Amaral, far right, at an event held in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Sep. 10, 2006, to commemorate the 33rd anniversary since democratically elected President Salvador Allende was forced from power by a military coup.
	redpepper.blogs.com /venezuela/spanish/index.html (1272 words)

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