Venezuelans protest over TV closure
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Thousands of people march in Caracas to protest against a decision to force a state TV channel off air.
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People of Venezuela fight to keep cheap petrol as government remains wedded to subsidy
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BOGOTA, Colombia, June 1 -- Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's decision to pull the plug on an anti-government television station has prompted days of protests and generated international condemnation, giving a weak and demoralized opposition a rallying cry after years of setbacks.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's opposition on  Tuesday presented a video laying out details of its allegations  that leftist President Hugo Chavez won a recall referendum last  month by massive vote rigging.
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Soon after CBS said that it had canceled the series âJericho,â angry fans started sending bags of nuts to the networkâs offices as a protest.
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Police broke up an opposition protest using a water cannon and tear gas after hundreds took to the streets on Sunday condemning a decision by President Hugo Chavez to force Venezuela's most widely watched channel off the air.
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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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The countdown has begun for Venezuela's oldest private television station. At midnight Sunday, Radio Caracas Television &#151; the most widely watched channel &#151; will be forced off the air after President Hugo Chavez's government decided not to renew its license.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelans crowded polling  stations on Sunday to vote on whether to recall left-wing  President Hugo Chavez or back his mandate to govern the world's  No. 5 oil exporter for the next two years.
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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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The Carter Center called for dialogue Thursday between President Hugo Chavez and opponents protesting his decision to force an opposition TV channel off the air, while relative calm returned to the streets after three days of demonstrations.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelans overwhelmingly voted to keep President Hugo Chavez in office, dealing a crushing defeat to a splintered opposition and allowing the leftist leader to convert one of the biggest challenges of his presidency into an even broader mandate to carry on his "revolution for the poor."   Stunned opposition leaders, who have fought for years to oust Chavez, claimed fraud after results announced Monday by election officials showed nearly 60 percent of voters had said "no" to the question of whether he should leave office immediately.    Scattered protests erupted in Caracas, despite an endorsement of the outcome by former President Carter and the Organization of American States...
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ARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 18 - After demanding an audit of voting results upon failing to oust President Hugo Chávez in a recall referendum, representatives of Venezuela&#39;s opposition movement said Wednesday that they would refuse to ...
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Venezuela passes a strict media law condemned by the opposition and human rights groups.
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A Venezuelan weblog, Noticias24.com, says the "first manifestations of censorship on the internet" are being felt in the country.
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Hundreds of people on Monday protested the proposed closure of a public hospital&#39;s trauma unit that serves a wide swath of South Los Angeles and regularly treats victims of gang violence.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelans voted in huge  numbers on Sunday in a historic referendum on whether to recall  left-wing President Hugo Chavez and electoral authorities  prolonged voting well into the night.