Chavez offers billions in Latin America
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Laid-off Brazilian factory workers have their jobs back, Nicaraguan farmers are getting low-interest loans and Bolivian mayors can afford new health clinics, all thanks to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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Venezuela's President Chavez visits Colombia for talks on how to broker a hostage deal with left-wing rebels.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday said he was willing to meet guerrilla leaders in the Colombian jungle to broker a humanitarian accord between Colombia's government and leftist rebels.
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Venezuela's Hugo Chavez says his planes can fly to Colombia to pick up rebel-held hostages but Bogota must agree.
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Venezuela is buying helicopters, boats and military transport planes in defense deals worth about &#36;2.7 billion, modernizing its military as tensions grow between leftist President Hugo Chavez and the United States.
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US President George W Bush pledges more social aid for Latin America, ahead of a tour of the region.
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Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez warned Sunday that the his country's worst crisis with Colombia in years isn't yet over, and a resolution depends on his upcoming meeting with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
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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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Oil-rich nations brushed off a push by Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez to cut production, but he used the OPEC meeting to push for expanding the cartel&#039;s membership and praised Bolivia&#039;s nationalization of its natural gas industry.
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A landslide all but wiped out Wilfredo Rodriguez&#039;s small shoemaking business last year, entitling him to a loan from President Hugo Chavez&#039;s government &amp;#151; money he says he never would&#039;ve found elsewhere.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday touted the fuel facilities and public works projects his government has built in the Caribbean in an effort to make inroads in a region where the U.S. has long been dominant.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says he has held talks with a representative of Colombia's Farc rebel group.
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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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President Hugo Chavez calls it one of his greatest achievements: a public health system with new clinics, refurbished hospitals and thousands of Cuban doctors providing free checkups for the poor.
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President Hugo Chavez said he will chop three zeros off new bolivar currency bills to bolster Venezuelans' perception of a strong currency in a bid to curb inflation, which is now highest in Latin America.
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Venezuela will give Haiti US$1 million (euro810,000) to help the French-speaking Caribbean country recover from Tropical Storm Jeanne, which left at least 620 people dead and caused major damage last weekend, an official said
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CIENFUEGOS, Cuba  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez proposed on Friday extending a barter scheme used by Cuba to other Caribbean and Central American nations to help them pay for oil supplies with products and services.