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5/8 Gotta love socialism
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194557,00.html
Chavez wants to be president for next 25 years
http://mosnews.com/money/2006/04/28/venezuelaoil.shtml
Venezuela oil production down 60%, buys from Russia
\_ It's not Socialism, it's Bolivarian..uh..ism. I am seeing first-
hand how a lot of S. American countries are getting very scared
of Chavez; here in Chile they're paranoid about how he prodded the
Bolivians into nationalizing their gas production (even though they
did the same with copper at one point.) The Argentines are playing
along because they're dependent on cheap energy, and Brazil
isn't doing much about it. Basically the only country really
raising its voice against Chavez is Colombia, and then mainly
because they're pretty sure he's using oil cash to supply massive
\_ Chavez' term, interestingly translated, not mine. -John
amounts of guns to FARC. -John
\_ Bolivarianism? How did you pick that word? Right now
Bolivia is kind of apeing Argentenia, aren't they? -op
\_ The Economist says its Bolivarianism, so it exists.
\_ Ah, it's not from "Bolivia" it's from "Bolivar"
\_ Ah, it's not from "Bolivia" it's from "BolÃÂvar"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivarianism
\_ Chavez' term, interestingly translated, not mine. -John
\_ Dictators wear many masks. In the past it's been Communism,
fascism, democracy, divine right of kings, fundamentalist [
islam, christianity].... The problem is that most people don't
see the monster behind the pretty mask. |
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| www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194557,00.html President Hugo Chavez said that if opposition parties boycott December's presidential election he would call a referendum asking voters to decide whether he should govern Venezuela for the next 25 years. Speaking Saturday at a stadium packed with supporters in central Lara state, Chavez rejected allegations he was a power-hungry tyrant but said he might seek to extend his rule beyond current term limits if the opposition pulls out of the presidential vote, as it did last year's congressional election. CountryWatch: Venezuela "I am going to call a referendum," Chavez said. "I am going to ask you, all the people, if you agree with Chavez being president until 2031." The Venezuelan Constitution allows a president to be re-elected only once in immediate succession. Chavez is eligible for re-election to another six-year term in December, but if he wins he wouldn't be able to run again in 2012. It wasn't clear if Chavez, 51, was talking about holding a legally binding vote to eliminate limits on re-election or proposing a plebiscite. Before Chavez took the stage, thousands of his supporters chanted: "Oh, no! Advertise Here Opposition leaders accuse Chavez, a former paratroop commander first elected in 1998, of becoming increasingly authoritarian and opening dangerous divisions along class lines in Venezuela -- the world's fifth largest oil exporter. Chavez supporters won all 167 seats in the National Assembly on Dec. The opposition has raised doubts about the nation's electoral registry, an electronic voting system and electoral audits conducted by the council. Chavez on Saturday slammed political foes for suggesting that the elections council, which was appointed recently by pro-government lawmakers, is biased in his favor. "They already started saying the recently appointed elections council is subordinate to Chavez, that fraud is being prepared," he said. Four government opponents have announced plans to run against Chavez, although not all of them have agreed to participate in primaries to choose a single opposition candidate. |
| mosnews.com/money/2006/04/28/venezuelaoil.shtml Click Here Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, has struck a $2 billion deal to buy about 100,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Russia until the end of the year, the British Financial Times reported on Friday, April 28. Venezuela has been forced to turn to its ally Russia, because the Latin American country faces a shortfall in its own production, a person familiar with the deal told the paper. This in turn puts the country in risk of defaulting on contracts with "clients" and "third parties". Venezuela could incur penalties if it fails to meet its supply contracts. Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) made a financing arrangement this month with investment bank ABN Amro to facilitate the purchases of oil from Russia via Rotterdam. PDVSA is believed to have dropped the Dutch bank after the Russian government agreed to provide Venezuela with an "open account" facility to buy the oil. The Ruhr Oel refinery in Germany, in which PDVSA has a 50 percent stake, may be among the clients that are being supplied with the Russian oil. PDVSA would not confirm on Thursday, April 27, that it was buying oil from Russia but said a statement would be issued on Friday. The company said it would be "logical" that the Ruhr refinery was sourcing some of its oil from Russia because it would be cheaper than transporting it from Venezuela. It is possible that they are trying to buy directly from Russian producers." The move suggests a growing gap between Venezuela's declining domestic output and its expanding contractual obligations to international customers. Luis Pacheco, a former planning director of PDVSA, said: "Why would Venezuela be buying crude oil from Russia? I would imagine it would be to meet obligations for light oil deliveries, but they are relatively small. Under President Hugo Chavez, PDVSA's oil output has declined by about 60 percent, a trend analysts say has accelerated in the past year because of poor technical management. Chavez's push to extend his influence throughout Latin America and the Caribbean with promises of cheap oil for friends and allies may be overstretching PDVSA's finances, however. Venezuela currently supplies about 300,000 barrels per day of oil and products to Cuba, Nicaragua and others under favorable long-term financing arrangements. This week, Venezuela signed a deal to send oil to town mayors in Nicaragua aligned with the leftwing Sandinista party. com archive Board of directors of Russia's flagship air carrier Aeroflot made a decision to buy 22 A-350 aircraft between now and 2014. This information was reported by Russia's business daily Vedomosti, which quoted a Kremlin source. Aeroflot was choosing between Airbus and Boeing's B-787 (Dreamliner) aircraft. com Controversial initial public offering (IPO) of Russia's state-owned oil company Rosneft could be cut to no more than $10 billion from the initially announced $15-$20 billion. The announcement was made in the wake of controversy surrounding Rosneft's IPO but sources close to the preparations insist the reduction would result only from changes in the company's financing needs. Chechen flag Chechen parliament followed the suit of current Chechen President Alu Alkhanov and his predecessor Akhmad Kadyrov and asked the Russian government to increase the republic's 49 percent interest in Grozneftegaz, a regional branch of Rosneft Oil Company, to 51 percent. Russian officials are in no hurry to answer this request, however. |
| en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivarianism edit Other definitions and dispute Historically, there has been no universally accepted definition as to the proper use of the terms Bolivarianism and Bolivarian within all the countries in the region. Many different leaders, movements and parties have indistinctly used them to describe themselves throughout most of the 19th and 20th centuries. People who have called themselves bolivarianos claim to follow the general ideology expressed in Bolivar's texts such as the Carta de Jamaica and the Discurso de Angostura. Bolivarian Revolution, both of which do not actively confirm or deny any involvement with the insurgent group. It is known that some individual Venezuelan bolivarianos do actively sympathize with the FARC in return, but it is not an automatic occurrence. |