Chavez Ready to Meet Bush to Improve Ties -Minister
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez and his government are ready to meet President Bush and  U.S. administration officials to try to improve relations  following Chavez's referendum win, Venezuela's Foreign Minister  said on Wednesday.
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President Hugo Chavez vowed Sunday to tackle everyday problems from soaring crime to trash-strewn streets, adopting a more pragmatic approach to governance and toning down his revolutionary rhetoric a month after a stinging electoral defeat.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday he planned to hold talks with Colombia's FARC guerrillas in Venezuela in an attempt to break a stalemate on freeing kidnap victims held for years by the Marxist rebels.
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Venezuela's President Chavez visits Colombia for talks on how to broker a hostage deal with left-wing rebels.
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Washington is seeking a pragmatic relationship with President Hugo Chavez's government that will allow for cooperation on trade and other issues despite deep political differences, the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela said Tuesday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Within hours of President Hugo Chavez's re-election on Sunday, Washington made overtures to open dialogue with Venezuela. But the man who calls President George W. Bush a "donkey" ruled out rapprochement.
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President George W. Bush, hosting Vietnam's president in a historic visit on Friday, welcomed warmer relations with a former U.S. enemy but warned that Hanoi must improve its human rights record if it wants to deepen trade ties.
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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian President AlvaroUribe offered on Saturday to meet his Venezuelan counterpart,Hugo Chavez, to defuse a widening diplomatic dispute over thecapture of a top Colombian rebel in Venezuela.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that he saw President Bush's upcoming tour to Latin America as a diplomatic offensive aimed at isolating his leftist government.
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- President Bush claimed progress on trade with Uruguay's president yesterday as he courted another leftist leader on his Latin American tour. "We care about the human condition," Bush said, trying to coopt the populism of one influential leftist rival he won't meet: Venezuela's firebrand Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited a Harlem church Thursday and promised to double the amount of discounted heating oil his country ships to needy Americans. But he also took another swipe at President Bush.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says he has held talks with a representative of Colombia's Farc rebel group.
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MOSCOW, November 26 (Itar-Tass) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Moscow on Thursday, November 25 for a two-day visit to discuss cooperation with Russia.
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US President George Bush meets the Uruguayan president as part of his five-nation Latin American tour.
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CIENFUEGOS, Cuba  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met on Friday with a dozen leaders of Caribbean and Central American nations he is supplying with cheap oil that has bolstered his regional influence.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, emboldened by a recent referendum victory, on Sunday promised tougher land redistribution as he pressed ahead with the "revolutionary" reforms at the heart of the nation's political conflict.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez named Ali Rodriguez, chief of the state-run oil company PDVSA, as the country&#39;s new foreign minister, local media quoted government sources as saying on Sunday.