Venezuela鈥檚 National Assembly passed a law on May 7 that assigns control over goods and services connected to the country鈥檚 petroleum industry to the state.
Tamara Pearson
After it was officially announced that the 鈥測es鈥 vote had won the February 15 referendum on a constitutional amendment that would remove limits on the number of times any elected official could stand in elections for public office with 54.4% of the vote, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez delivered a speech from the balcony of the Miraflores Presidential Palace, his two daughters beside him. The victory removes the current two-term limit will allow Chavez to stand in the presidential election when his current term finishes at the end of 2012.
President Hugo Chavez鈥檚 governing party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), got mixed results in the regional and local elections held on November 23, winning strongly in 17 out of 23 states, but losing the country鈥檚 two most populous states and the Capital District of Caracas.
Over August 9-11, almost all of the candidates of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) registered for the upcoming November 23 state and regional elections in the National Electoral Council (CNE) office, many accompanied by large marches of their supporters.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has promised new Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo 聯all the oil he needs聰 during a public event in Uruguay after Lugo was inaugurated on August 15.
Unemployment in Venezuela dropped from 8.8% in July 2007 to 7.2% in July 2008, the National Statistics Institute (INE) announced on August 14.
鈥淲e are the sons and daughters of Bolivarian socialism and we want to defend it鈥, explained Eduardo Churrio, speaking to 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
Venezuela has won Miss Universe again. Meanwhile, my friend in Bolivia wrote on her blog that day, 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know if anyone as big as me deserves to be alive鈥.
鈥淥nce they got their wages, [the workers] occupied the installations and demanded that the company go, then they occupied the offices and demanded that the administration of Sincreba [Merida Waste Incineration and Recycling System] retire鈥, Simon Rodriguez told 麻豆传媒 Weekly on the peaceful take-over by its workers of the Solid Waste Processing Plant in Merida in September last year.
聯We defend our sovereignty, and support the Ecuadorian people against imperialism, and for peace聰, Aida Guitierrez told 麻豆传媒 Weekly at a protest outside the Colombian Consul in Merida on March 6.
The moves by US oil giant Exxon-Mobil to freeze more than US$12 billion in assets in Britain, the Netherlands, the Dutch Antilles and the United States belonging to Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA is just the latest in a long line of attacks led by the US government on the government of President Hugo Chavez 鈥 which is seeking to construct a 鈥渟ocialism of the 21st Century鈥.
鈥淲e lack everything鈥 Frances Buitrago, a small shopkeeper in the city of Merida, commented to 麻豆传媒 Weekly. 鈥淭here isn鈥檛 any milk, rice, mayonnaise, oil, wheat, or butter.鈥
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