Venezuelans, fleeing Chavez, seek U.S. safety net
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A surge in the number of Venezuelans seeking asylum in the United States has some drawing parallels with Communist Cuba in the early 1960s.
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An American scholar said Friday that an official at the U.S. Embassy asked him to keep tabs on Venezuelan and Cuban workers in Bolivia. Washington said that any such request would be an error and against U.S. policy.
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Venezuela has sent 1,200 troops to the border with Colombia to prevent food from being smuggled out of the country, a Venezuelan general said, the latest step in President Hugo Chavez's campaign to stem food shortages.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Left-wing President Hugo Chavez was seeking a strong mandate for his self-styled revolution on Sunday as Venezuelans went to the polls to decide whether to re-elect the former soldier for six more years.
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President Hugo Chavez's ambitious project to bring "21st Century socialism" to Venezuela is running into obstacles -- easy cash, corruption and an expanding class of citizens who are growing rich by exploiting economic distortions.
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People of Venezuela fight to keep cheap petrol as government remains wedded to subsidy
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President Hugo Chavez said his foreign minister was detained by U.S. authorities at a New York airport Saturday for more than hour as he tried to return to the South American country.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Amid tumbledown cinder-block homes, the Don Bosco community center rings with music. A chorus of pint-size students sings traditional Christmas songs; 20 budding teenage musicians take gratingly painful stabs at playing violins and cellos; and tiny harpists dwarfed by their...
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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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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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High-ranking US officials and lawmakers are pressuring the State Department to take a more punishing tone with Venezuela, at the risk of tossing &quot;red meat&quot; to President Hugo Chavez, who now rules by decree, experts told AFP.
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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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The Venezuelan population in the U.S. has grown more than 94 percent since President Hugo ChÃ¡vez took office.
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From the snowy peaks of Bolivia to guerrilla hideouts in the Colombian jungle, Chavez's win fortified a common cause among anti-American radicals: the fight against "imperialist" economic policies that they believe Washington intends to impose on the region.
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CARACAS, Venezuela &#151; Supporters of President Hugo Chavez marched through Caracas on Sunday, demanding respect for Venezuela's sovereignty following U.S. criticism and Colombia's acknowledgment that it paid a bounty to capture a rebel on Venezuelan soil.
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"Fish lay eggs, don't they?" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez asked Mary Quintero, a student at an agricultural collective who had just reached the half-way point of her course on fish-processing.
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President Hugo Chavez urged soldiers on Sunday to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States, saying that Washington is using psychological and economic warfare as part of an unconventional campaign aimed at derailing his government.