topic : Venezuela
January 2007
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by Joseph P. Kennedy II
There's been a lot of controversy lately over whether Citizens Energy Corp. should distribute -- and the poor should accept -- discount heating oil from Venezuela while that country is under the leadership of President Hugo Chávez.
But those who have no problem staying warm at night should not condemn others for accepting Venezuela's oil. Rhetoric means little to an elderly woman who has to drag an old cot from her basement to sleep by the warmth of the open kitchen stove or give up food or medicine to pay her heating bill.
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January 2007
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Citizens Energy Chairman Joe Kennedy joins with supporters of the company's oil heat program to make a delivery of discount fuel.
Photo by Don West.
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May 2006
by Dave Lindorff
What do you call a nation that provides medical aid to desperately poor people in Mexico, heating assistance to low-income families in the U.S., crucial project financing to some of the poorest countries in Africa, and aid to impoverished Caribbean island nations?
If you're the New York Times, you call it "provocative," and you call the leader of that country "the next Fidel Castro."
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February 2006
by Cory Fischer-Hoffman & Greg Rosenthal
Two of Latin America's most respected independence figures, José Martí and Simón Bolívar, recognized nearly a century ago that their homelands would never be free of imperial domination until Latin America came together in solidarity as a united force. In the lands of these timeless figures, a unique partnership has developed between Cuba and The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela which defies the logic of neo-liberalism. Cuba and Venezuela are demonstrating an alternative relationship based on humanism and solidarity. This . . .
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January 2006
The Venezuela Reader: The Building Of A People’s Democracy
Edited by Olivia Burlingame Goumbri
Book review by Greg Rosenthal
Following the example of Cuba’s humanist approach to guaranteeing its people the right to quality education and health, Venezuela has embarked upon a historical mission to eliminate poverty in a country where nearly 70% of the population is poor. As Chavez consistently reiterates, the only way to end poverty is to empower the poor and marginalized.
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August 2005
by Clif Ross
MÉRIDA, VENEZUELA - The State oil company of Venezuela, PDVSA(Petroleos De Venezuela, Sociedad Anonima), has confirmed the discovery of four billion square feet of natural gas in western Venezuela, believed in June to have only been 2 billion square feet. It also confirmed that it possesses the largest single reserve of oil in the world. In addition to the estimated 78 billion barrels of conventional oil reserves, there are 235 billion more barrels -- estimates which include a lower-grade petroleum known as Orimulsion - in the Rio Orinoco region. This means that Venezuela . . .
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August 2005
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Hugo Chávez, El Presidente de Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela
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June 2005
by Jeff Cohen
Looking for an easy way to protest Bush foreign policy week after week? And an easy way to help alleviate global poverty? Buy your gasoline at Citgo stations.
And tell your friends.
Of the top oil producing countries in the world, only one is a democracy with a president who was elected on a platform of using his nation's oil revenue to benefit the poor. The country is Venezuela. The President is Hugo Chavez. Call him "the Anti-Bush."
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June 2005
by Andrea Rodriguez
HAVANA - Declaring that U.S. citizens are oppressed by their own government, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promised Friday that he would not visit the United States again until Americans "liberate" their nation.
Chavez, in Havana for trade talks, told an international gathering of activists here that before an earlier trip to Cuba, a U.S. State Department undersecretary he did not identify warned him not to go because he would no longer be received in Washington.
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June 2005
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro laugh during an anti-Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meeting in Havana April 28, 2005. The two leaders are seeking to build an alternative to the U.S.-backed FTAA, from which Cuba is excluded.
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