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7Mar

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Venezuelan revolution advances amidst challenges

NOVANEWS ‘Chávez is the people’. The Venezuelan revolution, which has given hope to the poor not only in that country but also throughout Latin America and across the world, is going through a critical phase. Following the presidential election last October, in which Hugo Chávez was convincingly re-elected with 55 percent of the vote, his new term of office commenced on 10 January. However, the President was unable to be sworn in on that date. Since his fourth operation for cancer in the Cuban capital Havana on 11 December he has reportedly remained in a critical condition, suffering from such post-operative conditions as a severe respiratory infection. As Chávez has been central to his country’s revolutionary transformation, the counter-revolutionary rightist o...

7Mar

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Iran, Venezuela

Iran declares day of mourning for anti-U.S. ally Chavez

NOVANEWS Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had forged a public friendship over loathing of “colonialism and imperialism; Syria also mourns Chavez’s ‘honorable stand on the conspiracy against Syria’. Haaretz.com Iran declared a day of national mourning on Wednesday after the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who shared the Islamic Republic’s loathing for U.S. “imperialism”. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who had forged a public friendship with Chavez characterized by lavish mutual praise, hugs and light-hearted moments, may attend Chavez’s funeral on Friday, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported. The two men had sought closer ties between their geographically distant countries, although action on joint social and mil...

7Mar

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Chavez: Another CIA assassination victim?

NOVANEWS Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died of cancer at a military hospital in Caracas on March 5, 2013. By Dr. Kevin Barrett We know that the bankers who own the US government routinely try to kill any Latin American leader who refuses to be their puppet. We know that they have mounted thousands of assassination attempts against Latin American leaders, including more than 600 against Castro alone. We know that they have been experimenting with cancer viruses, and killing people with cancer, since the 1960s. So if you think Hugo Chavez died a natural death, I am afraid that you are terminally naïve.” The Venezuelan president himself, before he died yesterday, wondered aloud whether the US government - or the banksters who own it - gave him, and its other leading L...

7Mar

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BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC MEETING: HUGO CHÁVEZ AND THE VENEZUELAN REVOLUTION

NOVANEWS - Invited organisations: IWA (GB), Communist Corresponding Society, Shoah, United We Stand Following the untimely death of this indomitable leader, we will be holding a meeting to honour a life given to the service of humanity. Friday 8 March, 6.30pm At 274 Moseley Road, Highgate, Birmingham, B12 0BS RED SAULTE TO COMRADE HUGO CHÁVEZ A great revolutionary light has been extinguished, but the cause for which President Hugo Chávez fought lives on as his abiding legacy, for it is the finest cause in all the world -- and he served it truly. It is with profound sorrow that we learned of Comrade Chávez’s deteriorating medical condition and death, but his great spirit -- which helped to transform the economic and political relations of his fellow workers, the Venezuelan masses, and ...

6Mar

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Venezuela Mourns

NOVANEWS By VARIOUS A week of mourning has been declared in Venezuela, following the death of President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday. An outpouring of grief has taken place across the country, with thousands attending vigils and other events, marking the loss of a much beloved leader. This morning, thousands of supporters gathered in Caracas to witness the state funeral, while many more have rallied elsewhere. In Merida, hundreds of residents gathered in Bolivar Square to mourn. (Ryan Mallett-Outtrim/Venezuelanalysis.com). After a series of speeches, including a live feed of world leaders paying tribute to the fallen president, Chavistas joined in mass prayer (Ryan Mallett-Outtrim/Venezuelanalysis.com). Chavistas paid tribute to Chavez by leaving messages on long sheets of pa...

6Mar

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Owen Jones: Hugo Chavez lifted millions out of poverty – and even his opponents accepted he won elections fair and square

NOVANEWS The President's death will be mourned by millions of Venezuelans If you want to learn about human rights in Venezuela before Hugo Chavez, type “Caracazo” into Google, and do so with a strong stomach. Back in 1989, then-President Carlos Andrés Pérez won an election on a fiery platform of resisting free-market dogma: the IMF was “a neutron bomb that killed people, but left buildings standing,” he proclaimed. But after safely making it to the presidential palace, he dramatically u-turned, unleashing a programme of privatisation and neo-liberal shock therapy. With gas subsidies removed, petrol prices soared, and impoverished Venezuelans took to the streets. Soldiers mowed protesters down with gunfire. Up to 3,000 perished, a horrifying death toll up there with ...

6Mar

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Hugo Chavez's death is a body blow for the poor and oppressed throughout Latin America

NOVANEWS Under Chavez's revolution quality social housing became the norm and more than 90 per cent of Venezuelans ate three meals a day for the first time in the country's history. The death of Hugo Chavez at just 58 is a body blow for the poor and the oppressed, throughout Latin America and the wider world. The most elected leader in the modern era, Chavez transformed Venezuela by the force of his will and a popular revolution which encompassed the marginal, the ethnic minorities, the workers, and key sections of the progressive intelligencia who saw in him a veritable Spartacus. He rallied an army of not slaves, but those despised by the oligarchy as hewers of wood and drawers of the oil which previously made only the rich richer. Under Chavez' revolution ...

6Mar

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Investigating Hugo Chávez's death

NOVANEWS Civil rights organizations demand U.S. documents and information related to possible assassination plans Within hours of the announcement of the death of President Hugo Chávez, civil rights groups in the United States filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demands with federal agencies seeking information and documents that "relate to or reference or discuss any information regarding or plans to poison or otherwise assassinate the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez." The records demands have been made to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of State, and the Defense Intelligence Agency and have been filed by the civil rights legal organization, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, the anti-war group, ANSWER Coalition and Liberation Newspaper. The Venezuelan govern...

6Mar

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Chavez Dead – VP Accuses "Historical Enemies"

NOVANEWS Venezuela's Vice President Maduro announces the death of President Hugo Chavez, says they believe Venezuela's enemies are responsible Transcript President Hugo Chavez died on Tuesday March the 5th 2013 in Caracas Venezuela, the news sent political shockwaves all across Latin America and the World. Nicolas Maduro acting as provisional president spoke to the people: “We came here to the Military Hospital in Caracas, to follow up on the health of our President – Commander. And the moment we where paying company to his daughter, brothers and family; we then got the hardest and most tragic information we can transmit to our people… Hugo Chavez Frias died today, March the 5th at 4:25pm .” The Venezuelan Defense Department Secret...

6Mar