Venezuelans pack streets before Chavez's TV closure
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Venezuelan police on Sunday fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse thousands of protesters demonstrating against President Hugo Chavez's closure of an opposition television channel.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelans crowded polling  stations on Sunday to vote on whether to recall left-wing  President Hugo Chavez or back his mandate to govern the world's  No. 5 oil exporter for the next two years.
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ARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 17 - Venezuela&#39;s opposition movement, crushed by its failure to oust President Hugo Chávez in a recall referendum, pressed ahead Tuesday with efforts to delegitimize the results of an election it insisted was ...
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Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez prepared to send helicopters into Colombia on Friday to pick up three hostages held for years by Marxist rebels, but they were unlikely to be freed until the weekend.
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In this dusty town of potholed roads on the Caribbean coast, people are fascinated with the revolutionary changes that President Hugo Chavez talks about constantly on television.
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It could be Miami or New York, Sydney, Toronto, Madrid or even Kuwait. Almost any destination is acceptable to a growing number of Venezuelans who want to emigrate because they see little future for themselves ...
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelans turned out early  and in large numbers on Sunday to vote in a historic referendum  that will either remove left-wing President Hugo Chavez from  office or give him a new mandate to govern for the next two  years.
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A referendum is under way in Venezuela to decide if President Hugo Chavez should remain in office.
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Venezuelan police on Sunday used water cannons and what appeared to be tear gas to break up thousands of demonstrators protesting the government's decision to close the country's most-watched television station.
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Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez heads to the World Social Forum, sure to get a sympathetic reception for his push to redistribute wealth from Latin America's elite to its poor.
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The countdown has begun for Venezuela's oldest private television station. At midnight Sunday, Radio Caracas Television &#151; the most widely watched channel &#151; will be forced off the air after President Hugo Chavez's government decided not to renew its license.
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Students took their 11-day-old protest over President Hugo Chavez's shutdown of the last nationwide opposition television station to Venezuela's Congress on Thursday, in a rare appearance by the opposition in the legislature.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Voters turned out in huge numbers Sunday to decide whether to keep populist President Hugo Chavez in power or oust him and his social revolution that critics say has sidelined the middle class and fueled tensions between rich and poor.    Activists on both sides set off huge firecrackers and played recorded bugle songs to wake voters hours before dawn...
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MARACAIBO, Venezuela  - President Hugo Chavez commanded a wide lead before Venezuela's election on Sunday, setting the stage for the self-styled revolutionary to intensify his anti-U.S., leftist crusade in Latin America.
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At least three students are injured after Chavez takes a television station off the air
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By Pascal Fletcher CARACAS, Venezuela  - Supporters of VenezuelanPresident Hugo Chavez celebrated Columbus Day on Tuesday bytoppling a statue in Caracas of the explorer whom Chavez blamesfor ushering in a "genocide" of native Indians.
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Supporters of President Hugo Chavez marched through Caracas on Sunday, demanding respect for Venezuela's sovereignty following U.S. criticism and Colombia's acknowledgment that it paid a bounty to capture a rebel on Venezuelan soil.