Venezuela replaces opposition TV with state network
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Venezuela shut down an opposition television channel on Monday and replaced it with one promoting President Hugo Chavez's self-proclaimed socialist revolution in a move widely criticized as a threat to democracy.
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Hundreds of thousands turn out to back the main opposition candidate for the Venezuelan presidency.
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President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that the United States suffered a humiliating defeat in its move to condemn Venezuela internationally for forcing an opposition-aligned TV station off the airwaves.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez exercises broad power over Venezuela. His allies sit on every seat in the National Assembly. His supporters stack the Supreme Court. And every futile opposition effort to oust him, from a coup to a national oil strike to a recall referendum two years ago,...
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A South Florida Spanish-language TV station has begun broadcasting programs produced by TV Marti, the federally owned station that beams anti-Castro programming into Cuba, U.S. officials said.
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Venezuela rejected criticism by a U.S. State Department spokesman of a proposed media law that government legislators are trying to approve in the National Assembly, said an official Wednesday.
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Thousands marched Saturday in the biggest show of public support yet for Venezuela's main opposition presidential candidate, who pledged to undo what he called the ills of President Hugo Chavez's government.
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Two key politicians leave Venezuela's opposition alliance after it failed to unseat President Hugo Chavez.
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Venezuela passes a strict media law condemned by the opposition and human rights groups.
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Political opponents of Hugo Chavez called off their primary election and joined forces Wednesday behind a popular state governor as their top choice to challenge the Venezuelan president in December.
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Students took their 11-day-old protest over President Hugo Chavez's shutdown of the last nationwide opposition television station to Venezuela's Congress on Thursday, in a rare appearance by the opposition in the legislature.
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By Patrick Markey CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan lawmakers backingleft-wing President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday they wereworking with opponents to rewrite parts of a media law that hascome under fire from critics who fear it will muzzle dissent.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- In the 1990s, Venezuelan journalist JosÃÂ© Vicente Rangel hosted a television talk show whose aggressive style and muckraking led to the downfall of President Carlos AndrÃÂ©s PÃÂ©rez. Now, after eight years as President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's deputy, Rangel is back on television, interviewing...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reshuffled key members of his government, naming as foreign minister the current head of Venezuela's state-owned oil company and handing the oil minister the helm of the company.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan pro-government  lawmakers began a final drive on Thursday to push through a  media content bill that international watchdogs and opposition  leaders warn could gag the press.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, June 1 -- Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's decision to pull the plug on an anti-government television station has prompted days of protests and generated international condemnation, giving a weak and demoralized opposition a rallying cry after years of setbacks.
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CARACAS -- President Hugo Chavez yesterday called opposition news channel Globovision an enemy of the state and said he would do what was needed to stop it from inciting violence, only days after he shut another opposition broadcaster. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans marched in Caracas in a fourth consecutive day of protests over Chavez's closure of the RCTV network ...