Hugo Chávez has launched a stinging attack on Barack Obama in the wake of critical comments written by the US President about Venezuela’s links with Iran and Cuba, labelling him ‘irresponsible’ and ‘a clown’, reports Tom Phillips.
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Chavez post chemo: ‘my body feels healthy’
After undertaking chemotherapy for a cancerous tumor, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has avoided the media spotlight but insists he is in fine health, reports Breitbart.
New-look Chavez foreshadows change in Venezuela
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez yesterday showed off his new look — a shaved head due to the chemotherapy treatment he has been undergoing for an unspecified cancer. If he goes, no one really knows what would happen.
Chavez returns during Venezuela parade
Thousands of Hugo Chavez supporters chanted “he’s back, he’s back” during Venezuela’s bicentennial parade after the country’s ailing Prime Minister returned home from surgery in Cuba, reports the AFP.
What happened to Hugo Chavez?
Is Hugo Chavez alive or dead? It’s impossible to say given the media-friendly Venezuela president has dropped off the radar after having surgery in Cuba earlier this month. New Matilda investigates.
Vale to a sharp-suited, bushy-sideburned political maverick
Twice president of Venezuela, the victim of political coups, misuser of millions of dollars in public funds and mortal enemy of current president Hugo Chavez, Carlos Andrés Pérez died aged 88 on Christmas Day.
Ecuador survives an all-too-familiar Latin coup
September 30, 2010 will be remembered as a historic day in Latin American and Ecuadorian history. The twice-democratically-elected government has survived a coup d’état, but the pattern of force pervades the continent, writes Leo Codutti from Argentina.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: Venezuelan election coverage shows world doesn’t give a stuff about global poor
In watching more than a decade of Venezuela reporting I have time and again marvelled at the capacity of a fixed mindset to reproduce itself endlessly.
Is Chávez plotting to control food and beer?
Outspoken Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez may be planning to wrest control of the country’s largest food supplier, publicly warning the company that he isn’t afraid of nationalisation. Critics say such plan could be disastrous.
Hugo Chavez in a rare interview with the West
Socialist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez sat down for a 60 minutes chat with the BBC, blaming Venezuela’s economic woes on America’s “rampant, irresponsible capitalism”.
Hugo Chavez forms a Twitter army
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has hired 200 people to keep his Twitter account updated, and now boasts a following of over 200,000 tweeps. Quite the turn-around from a leader who once derided the social media sensation as a “tool of terror”.
What are 30,000 Cuban advisers doing in Venezuela?
Anyone dismissing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez as just a wacky loudmouth does so at their own peril: he has imported 30,000 advisers from Cuba, $2b worth of weapons from Russia, and is doing big business with China. Is a socialist revolution brewing?
Taylor: Wong jeered, Chavez cheered
Our Penny was upstaged in her big speech to Copenhagen by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who spoke four times as long as he was supposed to and received a standing ovation by quoting everyone from Karl Marx to Jesus Christ himself, reports Lenore Taylor.
Penny Wong, live in Copenhagen!
Matthew Knott liveblogs Penny Wong’s speech to Copenhagen. She forewarned the crowd that her speech would not be exciting, and she sure delivered. Hugo Chavez, on the other hand…
Bernanke faces filibuster ahead of Fed confirmation vote
Will Ben Bernanke score a second term as chairman of the US Fed? The tenuous ties that bind Washington to Wall Street are being stretched to the breaking point, writes David Hirst.
Guy Rundle: Rundle: A vision of the future, written by the Left. Part III
Would a transformed post-capitalist economic and social system abolish money, markets and property? Of course not. Will that future be anything like the communism envisaged in the early Marx, or Lenin’s utopian State and Revolution? Emphatically not. But what hopes are there?
Honduran coup: take another look at Zelaya’s proposals
Had they come to fruition, the evil schemes of Zelaya (and, for that matter, Chavez) would have resulted in an electoral system rather like Australia’s.
Honduras coup didn’t come from nowhere
For weeks, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya — an erratic leftist who styles himself after his good pal Hugo Chávez of Venezuela — has been engaged in a naked and illegal power grab, says Glenn Garvin.
Chavez rules the airwaves in Venezuela
Hugo Chavez wants to shut down Globovisión, the last remaining national channel in Venezuela that’s critical of the government. At the same time, the government has built itself a huge media empire.
Honduras defends its democracy; Castro and Clinton object
Honduras is being pressured by the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hillary Clinton and Hugo Chavez to restore ousted leader Manuel Zelaya to power. But Zelaya is not a legitimately elected leader, writes Mary Anastasia O’Grady.
Hugo loves Mahmoud
Most world leaders have refused to congratulate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his contentious victory — but not Hugo Chávez, who loudly applauded his “very big and important victory”.
What Chávez has wrought
The authoritarian socialist has brought Venezuela food shortages and massive inflation, writes Duncan Currie.
