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We have started to collect the most important news related to Venezuela in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Venezuela: news

Extra troops reach Venezuela jail

Saturday, June 18th 2011, 22:06
related places: Caracas

Venezuela's authorities bring in extra troops to regain full control of a jail in the capital Caracas, following riots between rival gangs.
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Venezuelan troops storm riot jail

Friday, June 17th 2011, 22:42

Thousands of troops are sent in to regain control of the Rodeo prison and "protect inmates' lives", after a deadly riot between rival gangs.
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Venezuela prison riot kills 19

Tuesday, June 14th 2011, 18:31
related places: Caracas

Some 19 people have died and many more have been hurt in a prison riot near Venezuela's capital, Caracas, officials say.
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Venezuela moves to cut energy use

Tuesday, June 14th 2011, 9:01

Venezuelan consumers face increased charges if they fail to cut their electricity use in the wake of recent outages, the government announces.
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VIDEO: Chavez 'recovering well' after surgery

Tuesday, June 14th 2011, 2:52
related countries: Cuba

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is recovering well after surgery in Cuba last week for a pelvic abscess.
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Chavez recovers from Cuba surgery

Monday, June 13th 2011, 10:05
related countries: Cuba

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is recovering well after surgery in Cuba for a pelvic abscess, but no date is given for his return home.
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Saving species

Monday, June 13th 2011, 9:05

The challenges facing wildlife conservation in Venezuela
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Venezuela prisoner abuse probe

Sunday, June 5th 2011, 23:47

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez orders an investigation into the deaths of three prisoners in police custody, urging officers to "clean up their act".
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Venezuela condemns US sanctions

Wednesday, May 25th 2011, 10:46
related countries: Iran, United States

The Venezuelan government says US sanctions on its state oil firm PDVSA for doing business with Iran are "imperialist aggression".
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US sanctions Iran trading firms

Tuesday, May 24th 2011, 16:31
related countries: Iran, Israel, Jersey, Monaco, United States

The US imposes sanctions against seven foreign firms which trade with Iran, including companies based in Venezuela, Israel, Monaco and Jersey.
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Venezuela begins energy rationing

Wednesday, May 11th 2011, 4:27

Venezuela begins rationing electricity after blackouts on Monday affected nearly half the country.
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Venezuela links to Farc detailed

Tuesday, May 10th 2011, 13:10
related countries: Colombia

Analysis of internal communications between Colombian rebels shows intricate but also complex ties with the Venezuelan government.
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Colombia extradites 'drug lord'

Monday, May 9th 2011, 15:11
related countries: Colombia, United States

Colombia sends alleged top cocaine trafficker Walid Makled back to Venezuela rather than the US, where he is also wanted.
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Beauty kings

Sunday, May 8th 2011, 1:09

Venezuelan men ready to suffer for success
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Venezuelan inmates take hostages

Thursday, April 28th 2011, 20:37

Prisoners in a jail in Venezuela take 22 officials hostage to try to force the authorities to send in a medics to treat an alleged tuberculosis outbreak.
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Venezuela's Chavez meets Libyans

Tuesday, April 26th 2011, 22:03
related countries: Libya
related places: Chavez

A Libyan delegation is in Venezuela in an effort to find a political solution to the conflict in Libya, the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says.
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No Farc in Venezuela - Colombia

Tuesday, April 12th 2011, 21:23
related countries: Colombia

President Santos of Colombia says Venezuela is no longer harbouring Colombian rebels - an accusation that led to a diplomatic break last year.
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Cuba anger at US militant verdict

Saturday, April 9th 2011, 23:32
related countries: Cuba, United States

Cuba and Venezuela condemn a US court decision to acquit the veteran anti-communist militant Luis Posada Carriles as a "shameful farce".
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Chavez wins Argentine media award

Wednesday, March 30th 2011, 1:06
related countries: Argentina

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez receives a press freedom award in Argentina, angering critics who accuse him of stifling opposition media in Venezuela.
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Venezuela freezes nuclear plans

Thursday, March 17th 2011, 8:10
related countries: Chile, Japan

Venezuela halts plans to develop nuclear power in the light of the crisis in Japan, but Chile says it will keep the nuclear energy option open.
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VIDEO: Bull jumps into crowd in Venezuela

Tuesday, March 8th 2011, 6:56

Amateur footage has emerged of a bull jumping into the stands at a bullring in eastern Venezuela.
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Venezuela radical Lina Ron dies

Saturday, March 5th 2011, 23:22

The Venezuelan political activist Lina Ron - one of president Hugo Chavez's most radical supporters - dies of a heart attack at 53.
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Venezuelan union leader jailed

Tuesday, March 1st 2011, 2:19

A Venezuelan trade union leader is jailed for seven years over a strike at the state iron ore mining company in 2009.
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Venezuela attacks Hague comments

Tuesday, February 22nd 2011, 1:25
related countries: Libya, United Kingdom

The Venezuelan government says remarks by UK Foreign Secretary William Hague suggesting that Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi was on his way to Venezuela were "irresponsible".
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Office living

Wednesday, February 16th 2011, 9:27

Why are families living in Venezuela's foreign ministry?
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VIDEO: Politicians fight in Venezuela Assembly

Friday, February 11th 2011, 14:14

Tensions between allies and adversaries of President Hugo Chavez boiled over in the Venezuela National Assembly prompting scuffles and causing a fight to break out.
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Cuba welcomes new internet cable

Thursday, February 10th 2011, 0:04
related countries: Cuba, United States

Cuba hails the arrival of a fibre-optic communications cable linking it to Venezuela as a breach in the US trade embargo.
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Disaster movies

Wednesday, February 9th 2011, 10:03

The Venezuelan films inspired by devastating landslides
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Chavez marks 12 years in office

Wednesday, February 2nd 2011, 23:18

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez marks 12 years in power by promising to press on with his socialist revolution, despite admitting "mistakes".
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Blaze hits Venezuela arms depot

Sunday, January 30th 2011, 19:28
related places: Maracay

A series of explosions at an arms depot in Venezuela leaves one person dead and forces thousands of people to flee their homes.
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Cholera alert reaches Venezuela

Wednesday, January 26th 2011, 23:05
related countries: Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti

Twenty Venezuelans are diagnosed with cholera after returning from Dominican Republic, which is battling a spreading epidemic from neighbouring Haiti.
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Venezuela funeral limbo continues

Wednesday, January 26th 2011, 0:29

The body of the former Venezuelan president Carlos Andres Perez is to stay in a funeral home in Miami until a legal dispute over where he should be buried is settled, a judge rules.
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Ship lays Venezuela-Cuba cable

Saturday, January 22nd 2011, 22:25
related countries: Cuba

An underwater fibre-optic cable linking Venezuela and Cuba is being laid on the seabed in a move to improve telephone and internet services to Cuba.
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Venezuela fury at 'Little Hugo' dog slur in TV soap

Saturday, January 15th 2011, 10:56
related countries: Colombia

Venezuela orders a TV channel to stop showing a Colombian soap opera featuring a dog named Little Hugo, saying it is insulting to the country.
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Venezuela scraps university law

Wednesday, January 12th 2011, 1:31

Venezuela's parliament scraps a controversial university law after President Hugo Chavez said he would veto it in response to criticism.
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Chavez criticises 'interference'

Monday, January 10th 2011, 0:13

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accuses the OAS of interference after its secretary general condemned a law giving him special powers.
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Venezuela convenes new parliament

Wednesday, January 5th 2011, 19:52

Opposition politicians take up their seats in the new National Assembly in Venezuela, the first in five years to have substantial opposition representation.
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Chavez, Clinton chat amid tension

Sunday, January 2nd 2011, 10:10
related countries: United States

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shake hands in an apparently amicable encounter at a time of tension between the two countries.
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US 'revokes Venezuela envoy visa'

Thursday, December 30th 2010, 8:16
related countries: United States
related places: Washington

The US revokes the visa of the Venezuelan ambassador after President Hugo Chavez rejects the US envoy to Caracas.
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