Chavez suggests oil barter plan
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offers neighbouring states the option to pay for oil with local produce.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wants to merge his coalition partners into a single party.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday the price of oil should not fall below $60 a barrel, two days after the OPEC country cut its production to stem price declines.
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President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to stop sending oil to the United States if it continued to attack Venezuela as he said it had done through an Exxon Mobil  lawsuit that has frozen the assets of the OPEC nation.
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President Rafael Correa launches a proposal Tuesday for the international community to compensate Ecuador if the country prohibits oil drilling within its rain forest.
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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 thecovert of a top Colombian rebel in Venezuela.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez presided Friday at a regional petroleum summit in Cuba, pressing his efforts to counter U.S. influence in Latin America and the Caribbean by suggesting more of his neighbors could pay for cheap oil with goods or services in lieu of cash.
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Rather than knuckle under to Hugo Chavez, Exxon is launching an arbitration process.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited a Harlem church Thursday and promised to more than double the amount of discounted heating oil his country ships to needy Americans. He also took another swipe at President Bush.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his nation's oil wealth Â not Fidel Castro Â will likely be the star attraction Friday as Caribbean leaders gather in Cuba for a regional oil summit.
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Flush with cash from high oil prices, Venezuela's president is pushing his leftist vision across the region.
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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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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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BEIJING - President Hugo ChÃ¡vez, seeking to reduce Venezuela&#39;s dependence on selling oil to the United States, said Friday his country will give China greater access to its oil and natural gas resources.
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Ch&#225;vez unlikely to cut off exports because as much as the world needs oil, Venezuela needs customers.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's President Hugo  Chavez pressed for a new anti-terrorism proposal on Saturday  after a car bomb killed a top state prosecutor investigating  opponents accused of backing a 2002 coup against him.
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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.