| May 23, 2008 | - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela formed Unasur, the Union of South American Nations; Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared the American empire Unasur's “number one enemy.”
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BBC News
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| December 9, 2007 | - President Hugo Chavez decreed that Venezuela would permanently set its clock back half an hour, creating a country-specific time zone.
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BBC News
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| October 14, 2007 | -
Hugo Chavez broadcast his weekly television program, “Aló Presidente,” from Che Guevara’s mausoleum in Santa Clara, Cuba, to honor the fortieth anniversary of the guerilla leader’s death. “We are the Axis of Evil,” said Fidel Castro to Chavez via phone. “You will never die,” said Chavez to Castro. “You remain forever on this continent, and with these nations, and this revolution is more alive today than ever, and Fidel, you know it.”
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CBS News
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| July 1, 2007 | - President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela visited Tehran and praised Iran's nuclear program, calling President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad his “ideological brother.”
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BBCnews.com
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| January 14, 2007 | - In Venezuela, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and President Hugo Chávez embraced. “Welcome, fighter for just causes,” Chávez said.
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New York Times
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| August 25, 2006 | -
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said “Israel is doing the same thing as Hitler.”
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CNN
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| August 13, 2006 | -
Cuban leader Fidel Castro, it was reported, looked good after surgery, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited his bedside. “I ask you all to be optimistic,” said Castro in a statement, “and at the same time to be ready to face any adverse news.”
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BBC News
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| March 12, 2006 | -
Venezuela debuted a new flag. "The white horse," explained President Hugo Chavez, "is now liberated, free, vigorous, trotting toward the left."
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CNN.com
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| February 3, 2006 | - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler because both Chavez and Hitler were elected legally and then "consolidated power." He also pointed out that Chavez has "a lot of oil money."
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MSNBC
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| January 28, 2006 | -
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez vowed to jail anyone who spies for the United States.
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BBC News
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| October 30, 2005 | -
Hugo Chavez called on the people of Venezuela to stop celebrating Halloween, and said the holiday was the United States' way of "putting fear into other nations."
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BBC News
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| September 13, 2005 | - The U.S.-funded National Endowment for Democracy gave $100,000 to Sumate, a Venezuelan group that opposes President Hugo Chavez. "If the imperialist government of the White House dares to invade Venezuela," said Chavez during an interview, "the war of a hundred years will be unleashed in South America."
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Democracy Now!
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Democracy Now!
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| July 22, 2005 | - The U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment to start broadcasting radio and television programs into Venezuela that will counter the “anti-Americanism” of Telesur, a new Latin American TV station. Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez called the plan “a preposterous imperialist idea.”
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Common Dreams
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| May 23, 2005 | -
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said that he might break diplomatic ties with the United States if the U.S. did not hand over Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA employee who is accused of blowing up a Cuban airplane in 1976, killing seventy-three people.
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BBC News
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| February 21, 2005 | - President Hugo Chavez claimed that the United States had plans to kill him. “If, by the hand of the devil, those perverse plans succeed . . . forget about Venezuelan oil, Mr. Bush,” Chavez said.
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BBC News
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| August 21, 2004 | - An audit by international observers confirmed that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez fairly won the referendum on his rule.
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Reuters
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| April 16, 2004 | - President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela expressed his support for the Iraqi insurgency.
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New York Times
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| November 6, 2001 | - America recalled its ambassador from Venezuela after President Hugo Chávez denounced the Afghan
war as “fighting terrorism with terrorism” and a “slaughter of innocents.” A Michigan fisherman was attacked by an enraged 200-pound deer; he wrestled the beast for 45 minutes, strangled it with his belt, and finally clubbed it to death with a piece of wood.
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| August 22, 2000 | - Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was sworn in for a second term.
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| August 1, 2000 | - President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela was reelected in what he called a “mega-election”; Chavez vowed to complete his peaceful social revolution against Venezuela's “rancid oligarchy” by “liquidating our adversaries from the field of battle.” Classes resumed in Myanmar, almost four years after SLORC, the country's military junta, banned higher education.
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