| 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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| 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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| September 21, 2006 | -
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez objected to the smell of sulfur in the U.N.'s General Assembly hall, and offered to relocate the U.N.'s headquarters to Caracas.
| Source 1:
New York times
Source 2:
Fox News
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| August 26, 2006 | -
Venezuelan customs officials confiscated twenty U.S. diplomatic mail bags containing airplane ejector seats, explosive charges, and 180 pounds of chicken.
| Source:
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 20, 2006 | -
Venezuelans were spending their oil money on Scotch whiskey.
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The New York Times
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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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| May 11, 2006 | -
Gas in Venezuela was selling for $0.12 per gallon,
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! 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 4, 2006 | - The IAEA voted to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council because of Iran's nuclear program; Venezuela, Cuba, and Syria voted against the measure. Prior to the vote, Egypt proposed to make the Middle East a nuclear-free zone, but that proposal was rejected by the United States because it would interfere with Israel's weapons program.
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BBC News
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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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| February 1, 2006 | - Telesur, the Latin American
TV network backed by the Venezuelan government, announced that it would collaborate with the Middle Eastern TV network Al Jazeera.
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BBC News
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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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| November 25, 2005 | - State-controlled Venezuelan
oil company Citgo announced that it would provide over 11 million gallons of oil to poor people in Boston and New York.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
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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."
| Source 1:
Democracy Now!
Source 2:
Democracy Now!
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| September 5, 2005 | - Fifty-five countries offered aid to the United Stateswith the disaster created by Hurricane Katrina. Cuba offered 1,100 doctors, Iran offered humanitarian aid, China offered $5 million, and Venezuela offered fuel at a reduced cost. The United States was performing a “needs assessment” to decide whose help to accept.
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News.com.au
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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.”
| Source:
Common Dreams
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| June 10, 2005 | -
Iranian companies were planning to build bicycle factories in Venezuela.
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Islamic Republic News Agency
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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.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 29, 2005 | -
Venezuela opened a new branch of its state oil company in Cuba.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 24, 2005 | -
Venezuela ended military operations and exchanges with the United States.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 24, 2005 | - The Venezuelan government announced “Operation Dulcinea,” which will distribute one million copies of the novel Don Quixote to the public. “We're still oppressed by giants,” said the Venezuelan minister of culture.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 23, 2005 | -
Venezuela ordered 100,000 assault rifles from Russia; Donald Rumsfeld said that was too many.
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Sign On San Diego
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| February 14, 2005 | - In Venezuela, floods and mudslides killed thirty-seven.
| Source:
CNN
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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.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 16, 2004 | - President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela expressed his support for the Iraqi insurgency.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 24, 2004 | - Poor people in Venezuela were said to be eating
flamingos.
| Source:
CNN
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| March 2, 2004 | - Violent protests continued in Venezuela.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| March 2, 2004 | - President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela called George W. Bush an asshole.
| Source:
New Zealand Herald
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| January 21, 2003 | -
Venezuelan soldiers raided a Coca-Cola plant that has been closed because of the ongoing general strike. “We are distributing this product to the population because collective rights come above individual rights,” said General Luis Felipe Acosta Carles, who then took a swig of warm soda and burped into a television camera.
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| December 18, 2001 | - Millions of workers and businesses in Venezuela held a general strike and housewives banged on pans to protest President Hugo Chávez's “Bolivarian” revolution. “I will never hold a dialogue,” Chávez declared. “The revolution is invincible, and no one is going to stop it because it has infinite power.”
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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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| October 9, 2001 | - A group of hunger-striking prisoners in Venezuela sewed their lips together.
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| July 3, 2001 | - Vladimiro Montesinos, formerly Peru's answer to Rasputin, was arrested in Venezuela, having become a liability to Hugo Chávez, and was sent home in shackles to face a life sentence for arms trafficking, money laundering, death-squad activities, torture, arms kickbacks, and bribery.
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| June 19, 2001 | - “I have given instructions,” announced President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, “that from today onward, any foreigner who comes here and says anything offensive against the nation or the government or the president or the people will be expelled from Venezuela.”
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| June 5, 2001 | - Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, said that he was still considering declaring a state of emergency, which would allow him to rule by decree, in order to fight poverty.
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| December 5, 2000 | - Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers rebel group, announced that he was ready to negotiate a peace; the government issued a press release saying they would fight “until the enemy is totally eliminated.” Venezuela's supreme court ruled that President Hugo Chávez can proceed with a referendum to ban independent labor
unions and replace them with one national government-controlled union loyal to President Hugo Chávez.
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| November 21, 2000 | - Thousands in Venezuela were left homeless by flooding.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
Venezuela's
parliament gave President Hugo Chávez the power to rule by decree.
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| September 26, 2000 | - A new book claimed that anthropologists working in Venezuela in the 1960s deliberately infected the Yanomami people with measles, killing hundreds, perhaps thousands, in order to test theories about evolution and eugenics; the same anthropologists, who were working in association with the United States atomic energy commission, also injected Americans with radioactive plutonium without their knowledge or permission.
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| September 5, 2000 | - Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, warned of “the Vietnamization of the entire Amazon region.” Vietnam returned the body of a Canadian woman, minus one ear, after she was put to death for drug trafficking.
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| August 15, 2000 | -
British and American warplanes again bombed Iraq, just a few days after President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela visited the country; the airstrikes destroyed a warehouse used to store food acquired in the U.N. oil-for-food program.
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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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