Key facts about Venezuela
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COUNTRY: Official title: the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, population 26 million.
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By Pascal Fletcher CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela on Sunday slappedhigher taxes on foreign oil companies operating in its hugeOrinoco heavy crude belt in what President Hugo Chavez called adrive to tighten sovereign control over petroleum resources.
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Venezuela&#39;s electoral authorities Friday ratified the results of a recent referendum that kept President Hugo Chavez in power.
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President Hugo Chavez was set to win powers on Tuesday to rule by decree for 18 months so that he can nationalize oil and utility assets and press his drive to turn Venezuela into a socialist state.
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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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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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By Patrick Markey HATO EL CHARCOTE, Venezuela  - Venezuelan troopsand police escorted local authorities to inspect a cattle ranchowned by Britain's Vestey Group on Saturday in the firstgovernment enforcement of a rural land redistribution law thatcritics say threatens private property.
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People of Venezuela fight to keep cheap petrol as government remains wedded to subsidy
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WHILE India was celebrating its Independence Day, another important event was taking place on the other side of the world, in Venezuela.
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Caracas, 18 Nov. Venpres (Jaqueline Gil).- Venezuela's Foreign (MRE) Minister, Jesus Arnaldo Perez, has made it clear that he has not been removed or resigned from his post.
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Bilateral trade between Venezuela and China will reach 3 billion US dollar in 2005, double this year, President Hugo Chavez said on his return to Venezuela following a five-day official visit to Beijing which was also another strategic move to lessen
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It could be Miami or New York, Sydney, Toronto, Madrid or even Kuwait. Almost any destination is acceptable to a growing number of Venezuelans who want to emigrate because they see little future for themselves ...
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CARACAS - Colombian drug kingpins in league with corrupt Venezuelan military officers are increasingly using this country as a way station for smuggling cocaine to the United States and Europe, counternarcotics officials said. Up to 220 tons of cocaine, a third of what Colombia produces, now pass through Venezuela each year. Officials said the Bush administration's poor relations with Venezuela ...
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- JesÃÂºs Vivas drives a 26-year-old clunker with rusted fenders, ripped upholstery and a tattered carpet. With a wheeze, a plume of smoke and a walrus-like roar, the wreck he calls a taxi accelerates down congested streets. About the only thing that works well is a new radio,...
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People in Venezuela are set to take part in a presidential poll which incumbent Hugo Chavez is expected to win.
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Venezuela's Congress on Wednesday granted President Hugo Chavez powers to rule by decree for 18 months as he tries to force through nationalizations key to his self-styled leftist revolution.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - An audit of Venezuela's  referendum results has confirmed President Hugo Chavez won the  poll fairly and found no evidence to support the opposition's  claims of massive vote rigging, international observers said on  Saturday.