April 16 will be the seventh anniversary of the Venezuelan government鈥檚 health care program, Mission Barrio Adentro, which has used Cuban doctors to bring free health care to millions of the poor.
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An arepa is a Venezuelan food staple. It is a round type of bread made from corn flour and water and slapped into shape with both hands. Venezuelans say they cannot live without eating an arepa each day.
Spanish judge Eloy Velasco accused the Venezuelan government of socialist President Hugo Chavez of supporting armed pro-self-determination Basque organisation ETA on March 8.
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鈥淔ifteen families have dominated Honduras for decades, and they are the ones that carried out the coup. Today we face a very bloody time鈥, Honduran activist Santiago Reyes told a 40-strong forum on independence organised by the Latin American Social Forum on September 19.
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A huge mobilisation of up to a million workers took place in Caracas on May 1 鈥 the international workers鈥 day.
鈥淭he country is not going to sink. Despite the world economic crisis, we will keep advancing in social and human development鈥, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said, inaugurating a new pharmaceutical plant at Las Adjuntas, Caracas, on May 3. He was speaking on his weekly TV program Alo Presidente.
The ninth Australian solidarity brigade to Venezuela, sponsored by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN), visited Venezuela from April 16 to 24. Participants saw first-hand the reality of the Bolivarian revolution, led by socialist president Hugo Chavez.
鈥淭he great Latin American revolution began on April 13, 2002鈥, President Hugo Chavez said during a speech to tens of thousands of supporters in front of the Miraflores Presidential Palace exactly three years later.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez argued on March 27 that the economic measures his government has adopted, to confront the global economic crisis, contain 鈥渘ot one neoliberal element鈥, unlike those adopted by the previous governments.
President Hugo Chavez announced on March 21 the takeover of all national and international seaports and airports, returning them to the direct control of the national government.
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