In Venezuela, obstacles to 21st Century socialism
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President Hugo Chavez's ambitious project to bring "21st Century socialism" to Venezuela is running into obstacles -- easy cash, corruption and an expanding class of citizens who are growing rich by exploiting economic distortions.
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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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President Hugo Chavez has proposed slashing Venezuela's working day to six hours to turn its socialist revolution into a paradise of leisure - with one exception.
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Venezuela's Congress delayed by a day on Tuesday its vote to give President Hugo Chavez decree powers enabling him to nationalize oil and utility assets and press his drive to turn Venezuela into a socialist state.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday it will be "very difficult" to normalize relations with neighboring Colombia amid diplomatic tensions with the government of President Alvaro Uribe.
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The United States is lobbying hard to block Venezuela's bid for a seat on the U.N. Security Council, fearful that Hugo Chavez, its fiercely anti-American president, will disrupt the body as it confronts hot issues such as Iran and Sudan.
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But critics say Venezuela's president is trying to distract from economic problems at home.
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President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he could continue governing until 2027 if voters do away with re-election limits because he needs more time in office to establish a socialist economic model in Venezuela.
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Venezuela has said that it will not give citizenship to four Basque separatists living in the country since the 1980s.
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ISLA RATON, Venezuela  - Big cities may be swept up in the hubbub of Venezuela's presidential election, but the vote seems far less relevant if you live on an islet in the middle of the River Orinoco, hemmed in by Amazon jungle.
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"Fish lay eggs, don't they?" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez asked Mary Quintero, a student at an agricultural collective who had just reached the half-way point of her course on fish-processing.
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President Hugo Chavez vowed to plow forward with his so-called &quot;revolution for the poor&quot; Sunday despite refusals by Venezuela&#39;s opposition to recognize his victory in a recall referendum last week.
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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 administration, but the rifts may have grown too deep to be mended.
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URENA, Venezuela  - Together with his children and  his parents, Luis shares a cramped shack built of tin sheets,  wood and plastic bags on dirt lot where there is no water  supply, no transport and little work.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez, a populist who survived a coup two years ago, appeared  on Monday to have weathered the latest challenge to what he  calls his revolution to help the poor as he declared victory in  a historic recall referendum.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Amid tumbledown cinder-block homes, the Don Bosco community center rings with music. A chorus of pint-size students sings traditional Christmas songs; 20 budding teenage musicians take gratingly painful stabs at playing violins and cellos; and tiny harpists dwarfed by their...
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Venezuela's president tried to shore up his standing by aiding the release of hostages in Colombia. But his words don't carry as much weight with radicals next door