Venezuela's Chavez gets powers to rule by decree
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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 nationalizations key to his self-styled leftist revolution.
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CARACAS, Venezuela Aug. 29, 2004 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that as part of his deepening &quot;revolution,&quot; he will enforce an agriculture law that allows the government to tax and expropriate idle lots.
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CARACAS, 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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Outspoken leftist Hugo Chavez claimed victory in his bid for a new term as Venezuela's president Sunday after the bulk of returns showed him leading challenger Manuel Rosales by a wide margin.
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Venezuela's top court on Friday ordered the Defense Ministry to take control of installations of an opposition television station amid a show of military force before the station's controversial closure.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - President Hugo Chavez painted Venezuela the "red, really, red" of his anti-U.S. socialist revolution, after sweeping to re-election in Sunday's vote with wins in every state in the OPEC heavyweight.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has gained fresh energy for his left-wing populist &quot;revolution&quot; and new democratic credentials with his resounding win in Sunday&#39;s referendum.
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CARACAS, VENEZUELA - An audit of ballots from 150 voting stations has confirmed that President Hugo Chavez won last week&#39;s recall referendum, reported the Organization of American States Saturday.
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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,...
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Caracas, Venezuela - The results of an audit support the official vote count showing that President Hugo Chavez won this month&#39;s recall referendum in Venezuela, the head of the Organization of American States said Saturday.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won backing from 58 percent of voters, with 94 percent of electoral rolls counted, in a referendum on whether to recall him.
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If President Hugo ChÃ¡vez rules like an autocrat, then he does so with the full permission of a substantial majority of the Venezuelan people, SundayÂs election showed.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday set a May Day deadline for the world's biggest oil companies to surrender control of multibillion-dollar crude projects, speeding up nationalizations a day after he received powers to rule by decree.
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Venezuela's President Chavez says he wants the state to take over oil projects on the Orinoco Belt by May.
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President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela pardons and frees 27 Colombians convicted for plotting against him.
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Venezuela is to take an audit of the vote which has kept President Chavez in office, after charges of fraud.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 16 -- President Hugo Chavez was declared the winner of a national recall referendum by a substantial margin on Monday, and said he had won a fresh mandate for the highly centralized, populist style of government that has stirred fierce opposition at home and irritated the Bush administration.