Chavez Supporters Pull Down Statue of Columbus
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By Pascal Fletcher CARACAS, Venezuela  - Supporters of VenezuelanPresident Hugo Chavez celebrated Columbus Day on Tuesday bytoppling a statue in Caracas of the explorer whom Chavez blamesfor ushering in a "genocide" of native Indians.
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The White House hopes the deal will diminish the influence of Venezuelaâs president, Hugo ChÃ¡vez, who plans a rally against President Bush today.
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Pressure is building on Madrid officials to remove the city's last remaining statue of Franco, 29 years after his death.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Support for President Hugo   Chavez has weakened before a December election but the   anti-U.S. incumbent is still likely to return to power, a poll   published in an opposition paper showed on Wednesday.
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Venezuela's oldest private television station went off the air at midnight Sunday as thousands banged on pots and pans in protest against President Hugo Chavez's decision not to renew the license of the opposition-aligned channel.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez's overwhelming victory in a recall referendum has left the opposition reeling, with some calling for protests and others for calm and a recount.    Chavez won 58 percent of the historic vote Sunday, not only surviving the effort to oust him but converting one of the biggest challenges of his presidency into an even broader mandate to carry on his "revolution for the poor" in his second term which ends in January 2007...
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Voters turned out in huge numbers Sunday to decide whether to keep populist President Hugo Chavez in power or oust him and his social revolution that critics say has sidelined the middle class and fueled tensions between rich and poor.    Activists on both sides set off huge firecrackers and played recorded bugle songs to wake voters hours before dawn...
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's left-wing  President Hugo Chavez on Monday declared victory in a historic  recall referendum on his rule, but his opponents vowed to  challenge vote results they rejected as a "gigantic fraud."
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An opposition-aligned TV station forced off the air by President Hugo Chavez is considering taking its programming to cable, the channel's top executive said.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan-controlled Citgo   Petroleum Corp. said news of an old business deal ending   gasoline sales to convenience chain store 7-Eleven Inc. was   exploited for political gain against President Hugo Chavez.
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Major South American economic powers threw their support Friday behind anti-U.S. crusader Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in his fight against Washington for a U.N. Security Council seat.
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Voters turned out in huge numbers today to decide whether to keep populist President Hugo Chavez in power or oust him.
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Thousands of people march in Caracas to protest against a decision to force a state TV channel off air.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Summoned by bugle calls and firecrackers, millions of Venezuelans turned out in unprecedented numbers Sunday to vote on whether to force leftist President Hugo Chavez from office.    Lines snaked for blocks in upscale neighborhoods, where suspicion is high that the leftist leader plans a Cuba-style dictatorship, and in the slums, where support for his "revolution for the poor" is fervent...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds his final election rally in front of hundreds of thousands of supporters.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - A Washington-basedpro-democracy group said on Thursday it wanted to defuse a rowwith leftist President Hugo Chavez, who has accused the U.S.Congress-funded organization of backing efforts to topple him.
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Supporters and opponents of President Hugo Chavez held separate marches Sunday, marking the anniversary of the end of Venezuela's last dictatorship in 1958.