Chavez issues trade bloc deadline
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President Chavez sets a September deadline for Brazil and Paraguay to back Venezuela's membership of Mercosur.
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President Hugo Chavez threatened on Saturday to take control of banks that fail to meet state-imposed loaning requirements designed to benefit Venezuela's farmers.
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The Russian government intends to take concrete efforts to develop trade and economic relations with Venezuela, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said on Thursday, according to the Russian media.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Oil exports by Venezuela  have not been disturbed by the referendum on the rule of  President Hugo Chavez, shipping sources said late Sunday.
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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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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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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez threatens to nationalise supermarkets that raise food prices.
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Venezuela's Congress on Wednesday granted President Hugo Chavez powers to rule by decree for 18 months as he tries to force through a package of nationalizations key to his self-styled leftist revolution.
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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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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met for six hours behind closed doors Tuesday with Cuba's Fidel Castro and the close allies discussed energy issues and a regional trade pact during an emotional visit, state television reported.
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President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States if Exxon Mobil Corp. wins court judgments to seize billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets.
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President Hugo Chavez said oil and gas deals he recently signed with the Chinese, part of a strategy to reduce reliance on U.S. export markets, will boost trade with the Asian country to nearly $3 billion next year.
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The South American trade bloc Mercosur and the European Union said after a ministerial meeting Sunday they hope to conclude stalled talks about free-trade agreement on time.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday set the world's biggest oil companies a May Day deadline to surrender control of multibillion-dollar crude projects, accelerating his raft of nationalizations.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan electoral  officials on Sunday extended voting hours for the recall  referendum on the rule of left-wing President Hugo Chavez until  12 a.m. to accommodate massive voter turn out.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez yesterday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States if ExxonMobil pursues international court orders it has obtained against billions of dollars of Venezuelan state assets in a contract dispute.
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BRASILIA/BRUSSELS  - European Union and Mercosur  officials criticized each other's trade proposals on Thursday,  making an Oct. 31 deadline to create a transatlantic free trade  area appear increasingly unrealistic.