Venezuela, allies to start new bank
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and three of his closest allies are teaming up to create a regional development bank intended to strengthen their alliance and promote independence from U.S.-backed lenders like the World Bank.
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BEIJING: Fuel-starved China said on Friday it hoped to deepen its friendly relationship with oil-rich Venezuela a day after the South American country offered Beijing wide access to it vast energy resources.
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The leftist presidents of Brazil and Venezuela meet on Monday to cement a strategic alliance based partly on oil.
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Spanish business sectors investing in Venezuela have called on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias to ensure legal and political security for foreign investors.
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President Alvaro Uribe met with five of his predecessors Thursday and the former leaders offered their support in a growing political row with neighboring Venezuela.
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President Hugo Chavez&#039;s plans to build the first Kalashnikov factory in South America are stirring fears Venezuela could start arming his leftist allies in the hemisphere with Russian assault rifles.
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Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez proposed on Friday extending a barter scheme used by  Cuba to other Caribbean and Central American nations to help  them pay for oil supplies with products and services.
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President Hugo Chavez said he will chop three zeros off new bolivar currency bills to bolster Venezuelans' perception of a strong currency in a bid to curb inflation, which is now highest in Latin America.
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BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela -- When President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez brought the Copa America to Venezuela for the first time, his government sought to showcase the oldest international soccer tournament as a smoothly organized success.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan bank robbers with pistols and a hand-grenade agreed to give up most of their hostages on Tuesday and drive away from a two-day-old siege in an ambulance with a few captives, officials said.
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Venezuela dispatched extra troops as part of an effort to tighten security along its border with neighboring Colombia, but officials on Monday denied that the move was linked to a heated dispute over the capture of a rebel leader in Caracas by bounty hunters paid by Colombia.
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Venezuela's foreign minister said Monday that efforts to integrate Latin American economies through regional free trade agreements will eventually boost commerce with the United States.
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President Hugo Chavez opens a new Iranian-financed automobile factory in central Venezuela.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- The line forms every day after dawn at the Spanish Consulate, hundreds of people seeking papers permitting them to abandon Venezuela for new lives in Spain. They say they are filled with despair at President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's growing power, and they appear not to be alone. At other consulates in this capital, long lines form daily....
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CARACAS -- Fresh from victory and emboldened by a decisive mandate, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has the opportunity to extend an olive branch to a seething opposition and a suspicious US ...
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Central bank joins with counterparts in other countries to get funds into the financial system.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez exercises broad power over Venezuela. His allies sit on every seat in the National Assembly. His supporters stack the Supreme Court. And every futile opposition effort to oust him, from a coup to a national oil strike to a recall referendum two years ago,...