Chavez at Caribbean oil summit
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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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Oil prices ranged widely Monday, supported by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's threat to cut off sales to the United States
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made an unannounced trip to Havana on Tuesday to visit Cuban leader Fidel Castro, his ideological mentor and ally.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent Nicaragua a shipment of cut-price diesel fuel on Saturday in a demonstration of his support for Nicaragua's leftist opposition leader, Daniel Ortega, before a November 5 presidential election.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Colombian counterpart, Alvaro Uribe, are trying to smooth over their worst diplomatic dispute in years with a face-to-face meeting to discuss the recent capture of a Colombian rebel in Venezuela.
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Cuba, which for decades has struggled with crippling energy crises, has black gold and could be OPEC-bound, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said with a smile.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that taxes on foreign companies extracting heavy crudes from Venezuelan soil would be raised to 16.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 17 -- President Hugo Chavez sent a soothing message to American motorists on Sunday, saying Venezuela is not preparing to cut off oil shipments to the United States.
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His ambitious social programs are built on Venezuela's petroleum wealth, but President Hugo Chavez is increasingly talking up environmental causes and urging the world to cut back on oil use to fight global warming.
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BEIJING : Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has pledged support for Chinese companies to take part in oil exploration and pipeline construction projects in his country, state media said.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States in an "economic war" if Exxon Mobil Corp. wins court judgments to seize billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday he planned to hold talks with Colombia's FARC guerrillas in Venezuela in an attempt to break a stalemate on freeing kidnap victims held for years by the Marxist rebels.
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President Hugo Chavez, seeking to reduce Venezuela'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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ARRECIFE, Venezuela  - A sizable group out of the six foreign oil majors negotiating with Venezuela the nationalization of multibillion dollar projects are about to sign deals, the OPEC member's energy minister said on Wednesday.
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A top U.S. diplomat warned Friday that Venezuela cannot afford to drive away the major oil companies affected by President Hugo Chavez's decision to takeover the nation's most promising oil-producing operations.
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Caracas, Dec 27 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavezâs third visit to China paved the way for the strengthening of bilateral economic and commercial links, and the ratification of integration projects, Vea daily reported Monday.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has agreed with London Mayor Ken Livingstone to send cheap oil to London in exchange for the capital's expertise in a range of public services, The Guardian has reported.