Venezuela Tightens Border Security
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Venezuela dispatched extra troops as part of an effort to tighten security along its border with neighboring Colombia, but officials on Monday denied that the move was linked to a heated dispute over the capture of a rebel leader in Caracas by bounty hunters paid by Colombia.
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Venezuela will install an advanced air-defense system with anti-aircraft missiles capable of shooting down approaching enemy warplanes, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela on Sunday slapped  higher taxes on foreign oil companies operating in its huge  Orinoco heavy crude belt in what President Hugo Chavez called a  drive to tighten sovereign control over petroleum resources.
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Venezuelan officials say the arms acquisitions are needed to circumvent a ban on sales of American weapons to the country and to counter potential military aggression from the United States.
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Flush with cash from high oil prices, Venezuela's president is pushing his leftist vision across the region.
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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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The Defense Ministry ordered a massive search operation and strengthened security roadblocks Tuesday after a border patrol discovered signs of a North Korean infiltration across the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - As the setting sun casts  long shadows over a Caracas cemetery, crime-weary Venezuelans  pray at the tomb of the notorious thief Ismael, believing he  and other dead gangsters can protect them against violent  attacks and robberies.
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President Hugo Chavez&#039;s plans to build the first Kalashnikov factory in South America are stirring fears Venezuela could start arming his leftist allies in the hemisphere with Russian assault rifles.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan police swooped on an ambulance used by robbers escaping a bank siege on Tuesday, arresting four men and freeing a group of hostages held in the getaway vehicle.
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Indonesian authorities have stepped up security at the border with East Timor to prevent a rebel East Timor military leader who escaped from jail from entering the country, a report said.
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Venezuela has sent 1,200 troops to its border with Colombia to crack down on smuggling amid a bitter feud between the two countries' governments.
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Mexico's government said Thursday it would send troops and police to root out drug smugglers in several states, expanding an offensive that began this week in one violence-plagued state where soldiers clashed with traffickers trying to protect a marijuana field.
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By Fabian Andres Cambero CARACAS, Venezuela  - As the setting sun castslong shadows over a Caracas cemetery, crime-weary Venezuelanspray at the tomb of the notorious thief Ismael, believing heand other dead gangsters can protect them against violentattacks and robberies.
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Security is tightened around Guinea's presidential palace after a reported a shooting incident.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela is looking to buy  arms to strengthen its military capability and Russian MiG-29  fighters are among the options being evaluated, a senior  officer said on Monday.
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President Hugo Chavez said Friday that Venezuela has caught four people spying for the U.S. government and has turned them over to the Americans.