http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hugochavez/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 01:42:14 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286224/posts Ousted President Manuel Zelaya says he can't land at the main Honduras airport because soldiers are blocking the runway with several military vehicles. The pilot of his Venezuelan plane circled around the airport and decided that landing is "totally impossible" because of the trucks in the way. Groups of police and soldiers also are stationed around the runway and the perimeter of the airfield, facing off against thousands of Zelaya supporters outside. Zelaya says he'll announce later where they'll land. A crew of the Venezuelan network Telesur is on the plane. He told them Sunday that the pilots won't risk... yahoo.com/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286224/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 01:42:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286089/posts Honduras says Nicaragua has troops moving on border 05 Jul 2009 20:20:26 GMT Source: Reuters TEGUCIGALPA, July 5 (Reuters) - Honduras' interim President Roberto Micheletti said on Sunday Nicaraguan troops were moving to the mutual frontier and urged Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to respect Honduran sovereignty. He gave no further details about troop movements in Nicaragua which shares a border with Honduras to the southeast of the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa. AlertNet.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286089/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:38:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284522/posts The Hemisphere: A Honduran official has warned that deposed President Mel Zelaya was in league with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to ship drugs to the U.S. If true, can this really be the man the U.S. wants back in power?Foreign Minister Enrique Ortez dropped a bombshell last week when he said Zelaya, the president who was thrown out by a constitutional process June 28 after defying the law, had a little side business with the Caracas caudillo allowing cocaine to roll into Honduras from Venezuela before heading to the U.S. "Every night, three or four Venezuelan-registered planes land without the permission... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284522/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 00:34:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282718/posts Through an exchange of diplomatic notes, the United States and Venezuela have agreed to return ambassadors to their respective posts in Washington and Caracas, ending a dispute that disrupted relations between our 2 nations last fall. President Barack Obama is committed to improving U.S. ties with all nations in the Americas. Although there may be differences between us, our countries have many commonalities. Restoring the 2 diplomats is an important step that will help improve bilateral communication The agreement restores the high level of diplomatic representation that existed before last September, when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez expelled U.S. Ambassador Patrick... VOA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282718/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:51:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282217/posts SNIPPET: "The "coup" in the Central American nation of Honduras is the first major blow to the Marxist expansion sponsored by Hugo Chavez, but the American people are to a great extent being kept in the dark by the centralized news media." SNIPPET: "Chavez's threats against the new Honduran government should be taken seriously. The sale of sophisticated small arms, advanced jet fighters, and battle tanks by Russia to Venezuela has made the Chavez regime a significant regional power. Chavez has close ties with the most important guerrilla group in the region, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombian, a Marxist... INATODAY.com - INTERNATIONAL NEWS ANALYSIS TODAY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282217/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:46:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281810/posts In condemning the removal of Honduran President Mel Zelayaya by the Honduran military, Pesident Obama stands shoulder to shoulder with the Fidel Castro and his thug epigones Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega. Zelaya sought to conduct an illegal referendum to extend his rule. The Honduran military has sought to enforce the rule of law by providing for Zelaya's departure from the scene. Mary Anastasia Grady explains: Yesterday the Central American country was being pressured to restore the authoritarian Mr. Zelaya by the likes of Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega, Hillary Clinton and, of course, Hugo himself. The Organization of American States,... Powerline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281810/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:46:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281539/posts MEXICO CITY, June 28 -- Soldiers stormed the presidential palace in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa at dawn Sunday and forced President Manuel Zelaya into exile in Costa Rica. The military-led ouster sparked a regional crisis that thrusts the impoverished banana-growing country onto the international stage and revives painful memories of coup-fueled turmoil in Latin America. The coup was condemned throughout the Americas. President Obama joined other regional leaders in calling for a peaceful return of Zelaya to office. Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281539/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:50:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2281434/posts This morning, in a daring pre dawn raid, the President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was arrested by military force and forced into exile in Costa Rico. The Congress then elected its leader, Roberto Micheletti, to replace Zelaya. The military acted on the order of the Honduran Supreme Court. The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2281434/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:01:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2281416/posts Honduras — Soldiers seized the national palace and flew President Manuel Zelaya into exile Sunday, hours before a disputed constitutional referendum. Congress appointed a successor, but Zelaya, a leftist ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said he was the victim of an illegal coup. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2281416/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:17:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2281142/posts A smart gas station owner from Wadsworth, Illinois has given up his Citgo franchise and re-opened as a Shell station. To celebrate he posted a sign that gives Hugo Chavez a wonderful sendoff. "Adios Chavez," it reads. For the last five years I have personally boycotted any Citgo gas station. Citgo, you see, is wholly owned by Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., which itself is wholly owned by Venezuela's despotic President Hugo Chavez and his puppet government. I have written several times in the past about this fact (here, and here) and have wondered why more Americans haven't talked about boycotting... Publius' Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2281142/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:52:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279745/posts Iran's growing influence in Latin America is a "potential risk" to the region, the newly-appointed head of the US Southern Command, General Douglas Fraser has warned. Fraser, who on Thursday takes charge of US military operations in 31 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, expressed "real concern" about the Islamic Republic's links with "extremist organizations" in the region. "The real concern is not a nation-to-nation interaction, it is the connection that Iran has with extremist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah and the potential risk that that could bring to this region," Fraser told journalists ahead of taking up the... Space War http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279745/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:48:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276085/posts LAS VEGAS, Venezuela -- Dreaming of a new life, Ramón Barrera came to El Charcote, a vast farm here in northwestern Venezuela, several years after President Hugo Chávez's populist government had expropriated the property from its longtime owners and begun distributing parcels to small farmers...Six months after he arrived, Barrera's 37 acres are fallow, so he spends his time feeding grain to nine scrawny pigs. He and other farmers trying to earn a living on the farm's sunbaked expanse said the technical help they had been promised never materialized... Chávez's so-called back-to-the-land movement calls for the redistribution of land --... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276085/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:08:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274423/posts CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is standing by his man in the Middle East, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as hundreds of thousands of ordinary Iranians took to the streets Wednesday for the fifth straight day to protest his claim to a landslide re-election. Chavez belongs to a small circle of political oddfellows who support Ahmadinejad, including the King of Swaziland; Hamas, the militant Palestinian organization; and Hezbollah, the radical Lebanese group. The Venezuelan government, "in the name of the people," hailed the "extraordinary democratic development" that resulted in Ahmadinejad's victory Friday, according to a foreign ministry statement.... Miami Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274423/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:13:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269346/posts The Venezuelan government of U.S.-critic President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday ordered Coca-Cola Co to withdraw its Coke Zero beverage from the South American nation, citing unspecified dangers to health. The decision follows a wave of nationalizations and increased scrutiny of businesses in South America's top oil exporter. Health Minister Jesus Mantilla said the zero-calorie Coke Zero should no longer be sold and stocks of the drink removed from store shelves. "The product should be withdrawn from circulation to preserve the health of Venezuelans," the minister said in comments reported by the government's news agency. Despite Chavez's anti-capitalist policies and rhetoric... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269346/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:47:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268702/posts If you heard the leader of a country cursing in public like a drunken sailor (or Randi Rhodes), you would think he is somewhat unbalanced. However, according to Reuters writer, Charlie Devereux, a foul mouth in a nation's leader is something to be lauded if that leader happens to be Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. In fact, Devereux even cites Chavez's foul mouth as a key to his success in a story that brings up topics and words in a bid to attain a level of crudity rarely heard in a wire service article: CARACAS (Reuters) - A head of state... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268702/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:38:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268374/posts Americas: What does Venezuela's Hugo Chavez call a nation that develops peacefully, embraces markets, promotes property rights, pursues free trade and has no use for his revolution? A target. Welcome to Peru.Last Friday and Saturday, a police confrontation at a roadblock near the northern Peruvian town of Bagua ended in violence, with some 30 dead. A major highway had been blocked off for 55 days by some 5,000 indigenous protesters in a tactic identical to that used by radicalized indigenous protesters in Bolivia in recent years. Roadblocks are basically used to starve inland cities into submission by halting shipments of... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268374/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:08:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973707/posts Energy: A refinery burns in Texas while politicians fiddle in Washington. As oil goes over $100 a barrel, we don't have to worry about Hugo Chavez restricting supply. We have the Democrats in Congress to do that. Suppose you had a ton of money sitting in your bank account but you decided to max out your credit cards anyway. That's the energy policy of the United States as fashioned by the Democrat-controlled Senate. At these prices, we have a trillion dollars worth of oil sitting under a section of frozen tundra the size of Dulles Airport near Washington, D.C. We... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973707/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:40:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265465/posts CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan prosecutors charged the head of an anti-government television station with usury on Thursday, ending a weeks-long investigation into his business activities that he called politically motivated. Dozens of National Guard troops accompanied prosecutors to the upscale residence of Globovision president Guillermo Zuloaga on Thursday evening to gather evidence, according to state television footage. It was not clear if they entered the home. Yahooooo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265465/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:56:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2264740/posts "Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right." The Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2264740/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:07:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264265/posts Hugo Chavez may be a loon, but he knows a socialist when he sees one. And he sees one in Barack Obama. During one of Chavez’s customary lectures on the “curse” of capitalism and the bonanzas of socialism, the Venezuelan leader made reference to GM’s bankruptcy filing, which is expected to give the U.S. government a 60 percent stake in the 100-year-old former symbol of American might. ”Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right,” Chavez joked on a live television... The Lone Star Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264265/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 01:17:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263540/posts CARACAS, June 2 (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday that he and Cuban ally Fidel Castro risk being more conservative than U.S. President Barack Obama as Washington prepares to take control of General Motors Corp. During one of Chavez's customary lectures on the "curse" of capitalism and the bonanzas of socialism, the Venezuelan leader made reference to GM's bankruptcy filing, which is expected to give the U.S. government a 60 percent stake in the 100-year-old former symbol of American might. "Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263540/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 06:27:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262165/posts Venezuela's recent purchase of the most lethal shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles in the Russian arsenal is sharpening U.S. concerns that parts of President Hugo Chávez's massive weapons buildup could wind up in the hands of terrorists or guerrillas in neighboring Colombia. Washington's unease is well-founded, U.S. government officials say, because of credible evidence that three top Venezuelan officials offered Colombia's FARC rebels weapons, money and contacts to buy anti-aircraft missiles in 2007. Such missiles in the hands of the FARC would mark a steep escalation of the 45-year-old conflict in Colombia, where government forces in recent years have deployed a fleet... McClatchy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262165/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 14:59:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261891/posts For the second consecutive day, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has cancelled his TV show Alo Presidente. In the end, his four-day TV anniversary extravaganza was reduced to a handful of transmissions over just two days... The government cited "technical reasons". Saturday's cancellation came amid arguments with Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa about a live debate... The first two days of the programme were pretty much what the audience had been expecting: Mr Chavez hosted the show from an electrical plant in the west of the country, there were live satellite links to pro-government events around Venezuela, he railed against his... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261891/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 02:41:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261354/posts CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez says he has a new book for President Barack Obama: "What is to be Done?" by communist Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state. Chavez says he'll "give it to Obama at the next meeting." "What is to be Done?" is Lenin's political treatise on the role of intellectuals and the proletariat in promoting revolution, written more than a decade before he led the Bolshevik takeover of Russia in 1917. star tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261354/posts#comment Sat, 30 May 2009 21:06:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261040/posts President Hugo Chavez says he has a new book for President Barack Obama: "What is to be Done?" by communist Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state. Chavez says he'll "give it to Obama at the next meeting." "What is to be Done?" is Lenin's political treatise on the role of intellectuals and the proletariat in promoting revolution, written more than a decade before he led the Bolshevik takeover of Russia in 1917. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261040/posts#comment Sat, 30 May 2009 04:06:19 GMT