PRIMARIES 2012
Electoral committtee: Everything is ready for February 12 vote
PRIMARIES 2012. "We have to report on a succesful day. At this time (5:30 pm, Venezuelan local time), we have set up all of the polling centers throughout the country," said Teresa Albanes, the president of the opposition Unified Democratic Panel (MUD) Electoral Committee, at a press conference on Friday.
AGRICULTURE
If they refuse to pay government-set cocoa prices
Venezuela threatens with "temporary occupation" of chocolate factories
AGRICULTURE . Executive Vice President Elías Jaua, who is also the Minister of Agriculture and Lands, warned national and foreign chocolate companies based in Venezuela that failure to pay the raw cocoa price set by the government will lead to "temporary occupation" of those factories, as provided under the Organic Law on Food Reliable Supply and Sovereignty and the Law on Defense of People in the Access to Goods and Services.
PRIMARIES 2012
Balloting stations finish off
PRIMARIES 2012
They report poor turnout
Venezuelan state-run media demean opposition primaries
PRIMARIES 2012. Some news web portals disregarded the vote where Venezuelans are choosing the opponent of President Hugo Chávez in the elections of October 7
PRIMARIES 2012
Opposition leaders cast their ballot in primaries
PRIMARIES 2012
MUD Electoral Committee
Albanes: Voting extended until 5:00 p.m.
PRIMARIES 2012
"Enthusiasm" in New York in election day
PRIMARIES 2012
Leopoldo López: Turnout is awesome!
PRIMARIES 2012. "Today, the Youth Day, we are nailing down democracy, participation. I have no doubt that today hallmarks the beginning of a new stage for Venezuelans," proclaimed López after casting his ballot
PRIMARIES 2012
Venezuelans sign a petition to submit to the IACHR the consulate affair
PRIMARIES 2012. Venezuelan opposition umbrella group Unified Democratic Panel (MUD) took advantage of primary elections to ask voters in Miami to sign a document authorizing the MUD to seek "in accordance with the Constitution and Venezuelan laws at any Venezuelan or multilateral authority or otherwise, the reopening of said consulate" in Miami
PRIMARIES 2012
Voter turnout increases in opposition primaries
PRIMARIES 2012
Presidential pre-candidate Capriles: Turnout exceeds our expectations
PRIMARIES 2012. Opposition presidential pre-candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski reiterated that the secrecy of vote is guaranteed. "We must vote. Everybody should go to the polling stations," he said
PRIMARIES 2012
Venezuelans vote in primary elections in three Colombian cities
PRIMARIES 2012. According to a speaker of opposition umbrella group Unified Democratic Panel (MUD), about 40,000 Venezuelans are residing in Colombia
News This Week
Saturday February 11, 2012
Friday February 10, 2012
- Opposition leader: Primaries are the right time to react against fear
- Venezuelan VP threatens with "temporary occupation" of chocolate factories
- Top Venezuelan court sends draft Criminal Code to Parliament
- Venezuelan inflation trebles compared to the rest of ALBA countries
- Opposition electoral committtee: Everything is ready for February 12 vote
- New prices of regulated products to be effective on March 1
- Diego Arria: I'd rather lose by saying the truth
- Capriles is positive that the youth will vote to celebrate their day
- Venezuelan gov't to cut prices of regulated products up to 61%
- Carter Center delegation to follow Venezuelan opposition primaries
- Opposition presidential hopefuls stage massive rallies
- Pablo Pérez: Chávez fears to take on me
- Venezuelan government is certain of no derailment with Colombia
- Venezuelan Defense Minister meets with his Colombian counterpart
Thursday February 09, 2012
- Oil exports to China in 2015 are to match current oil shipments to the US
- Chávez postpones meeting with Brazil's Dilma Rousseff
- ALBA member countries support nationalizations
- Cardinal Urosa: The Christian values of a leader are in the Constitution
- Venezuela, Colombia to sign soon appendixes of trade agreements
- Venezuelan agency to punish firms providing "false" information
- Venezuela's petroleum minister: Opposition to privatize the oil industry
- CNE director complains about Fidel Castro's meddling with domestic affairs
- MUD: On February 14, everybody will raise winner's arm
- Fourteen newborns die at a public hospital in central Venezuela
Wednesday February 08, 2012
- Only 4% is still to be added to Venezuela's register of voters
- Cost of Venezuela's basic basket stands at USD 1,486 in December
- Coup plotters may return to the Armed Forces
- National Assembly approves agreement between Pdvsa and Gazprom
- Venezuelan hopeful invites pre-candidates to sign commitment for democracy
- Former Pdvsa employee accused of receiving bribes from ex Pdvsa adviser
- CNE director: "Mayor candidate is entitled to all his political rights"
- Venezuelan residents abroad to vote in more than 31 countries on Sunday
- Shortage index hits the highest level in 45 months
- Dissenters warn against threats on public servants
Tuesday February 07, 2012
- Food inflation rises to 2% in January
- Venezuela pays a "high cost" to gain allies, analysts say
- Pdvsa's fiscal contribution drops 2.9% compared to 2008
- Fedecámaras: Gov't may cut prices for political reasons
- International reserves fall 8% due to transfers to Fonden
- Caracas, Bogotá to discuss the presence of FARC leader in Venezuela
- New law may turn industrial property into social ownership
- Venezuela's inflation rate stands at 1.5% in January
- "Chávez is there because of political mistakes"
- Pdvsa fails to get loan for Pernambuco refinery
- Fidel Castro: Venezuelan opposition will not be able to defeat Chávez
Monday February 06, 2012
- Republicans escalate criticism against Chávez, Castro brothers
- Fire reported in Cardón's refinery unit
- Venezuela has submitted to the UN no report on the Essequibo
- ALBA summit ends with entry of guest countries
- Draft labor law provides two hours a day for workers' self-training
- Chávez admits deficiencies in Venezuelan-Iranian auto plant
- Venezuelan defense minister thanks Fidel Castro for his support
- Analyst warns about irregular use of international reserves
- Retail sales price make businessmen nervous
- Opposition pre-candidate warns against Chávez's possible self-coup
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Loose ends
Two years later, subsequent to the bank interventions that affected 14 private institutions, Public Prosecutor Office maintains investigations open, these concern the public funds that ended up at some of those organisms and were utilized in shady financial operations, this is included among the accusations held by the Public Ministry against some bankers.
Highlights
- Excerpts of column "Runrunes" released on February 7
- "Chávez is there because of political mistakes"
- New law may turn industrial property into social ownership
- Michael Rowan / Irrational Economics
- Venezuela pays a "high cost" to gain allies, analysts say
- Venezuela has submitted to the UN no report on the Essequibo
Foreign Affairs
UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez forwarded a letter to the United Nations General Assembly lambasting the United States and NATO for their military involvement in Libya and for the attempts at extending the "imperialist format."
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