Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with venezuela www.salem-news.com 2010 I start from the premise that Martin Luther King expressed: “Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere”. In the country of my birth, The Devil’s Own Country, I experienced similar injustice committed against the native peoples and the black people as Tamils suffer, especially in Sri Lanka where they are subjugated to Shinalese chauvinism. http://salem-news.com/articles/december132011/ridenaur-tamils-rr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december132011/ridenaur-tamils-rr.php Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:21:00 PST Attending to other matters that are now top priority, I momentarily strayed from the frequency with which I had been writing reflections in the year 2010; however, Hugo Chávez Frías’ proclamation last Thursday the 30th, obliges me to write these lines. The president of Venezuela is one of the men who has done the most for the health and education of his people... http://salem-news.com/articles/july062011/courageous-statement-fc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july062011/courageous-statement-fc.php Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:51:00 PDT For those who may not be aware, Roger Noriega is the head of an Al Qaeda cell in Washington, D.C., and moonlights as the subcommander of the 17th front of the FARC. A member of Evo Morales’ network of secret boyfriends, Noriega orchestrated the 2004 school siege in Beslan and was once sighted at the helm of a Somali pirate ship... http://salem-news.com/articles/june032011/noriega-chavez-bf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june032011/noriega-chavez-bf.php Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:11:00 PDT Gracing the pages of various Spanish-language newspapers yesterday and today is an article entitled “Bin Laden in Latin America”. Written by exiled Cuban columnist and author Carlos Alberto Montaner, whose claims to fame include referring to Eduardo Galeano’s acclaimed Open Veins of Latin America as “the idiot’s bible”, it might be more appropriately titled “The idiot’s attempt to turn Hugo Chávez into bin Laden by way of an irrelevant Ethiopian”. http://salem-news.com/articles/may092011/chavez-montaner-bf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may092011/chavez-montaner-bf.php Mon, 09 May 2011 16:15:00 PDT During a visit to Nicaragua not so long ago, I spent a good deal of time speaking with a former Sandinista fighter, now a bank security guard in the town of San Juan del Sur, who was disillusioned with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and what he referred to as Ortega’s abandonment of Sandinista revolutionary ideals. It was as if, the security guard said, the dead no longer mattered when one was in power. http://salem-news.com/articles/february262011/ortega-betrayal-bf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february262011/ortega-betrayal-bf.php Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:57:00 PST In late November, Venezuela was hammered by torrential rains and flooding that left 35 people dead and roughly 130,000 homeless. If George Bush had been president, instead of Hugo Chavez, the displaced people would have been shunted off at gunpoint to makeshift prison camps--like the Superdome--as they were following Hurricane Katrina. But that's not the way that Chavez works. http://salem-news.com/articles/january052011/chavez-reality.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january052011/chavez-reality.php Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:53:00 PST According to Israeli daily Haaretz, the current border dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua- is a “trial balloon” for a new Iranian-funded “‘Nicaragua Canal’ linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.” The article takes care to specify that Costa Rica is “a country without an army” but does not suggest whether the announcement earlier this year regarding U.S. naval militarization of the Central American nation might also have constituted a trial balloon for something. http://salem-news.com/articles/november192010/iran-venez-us-bf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november192010/iran-venez-us-bf.php Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:07:00 PST Today’s top story in the Honduran paper El Heraldo, one of the mouthpieces of last year’s coup against President Mel Zelaya, proclaims that Honduras celebrated 189 years of independence from Spain yesterday “in peace and tranquility” and that “every Honduran heart beat stronger” with love and pride for the land. These rosy characterizations are difficult to reconcile with news from other venues... http://salem-news.com/articles/september162010/zelaya-chills-bf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september162010/zelaya-chills-bf.php Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:12:00 PDT Recently Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias, the current president of Venezuela, opened the coffin of his idol Simón Bolivar so Venezuela can investigate the president's suspicions of foul play in Bolivar's death in 1830. http://salem-news.com/articles/july212010/chavez-bolivar.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july212010/chavez-bolivar.php Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:06:00 PDT One week from today—July 12—will mark the fourth anniversary of the start of the July War in Lebanon, which lasted 34 days and resulted in the deaths of approximately 1200 Lebanese civilians and 43 Israeli civilians. None of the latter nationality were liquidated by Apache helicopter after being ordered by Hezbollah to abandon their villages. http://salem-news.com/articles/july052010/july-war-bf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july052010/july-war-bf.php Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:37:00 PDT In his recent review for The New York Times, Larry Rohter stages a valiant attempt to discredit the new Oliver Stone documentary “South of the Border”, which favorably portrays Latin American governments that enjoy considerable popular support. Among Rohter’s compelling evidence of the film’s “misinformation” is that Stone pronounces Hugo Chávez’ last name incorrectly. http://salem-news.com/articles/july032010/venezuelan-dozen-bf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july032010/venezuelan-dozen-bf.php Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:07:00 PDT In honor of the impending one-year anniversary of the Jun. 28, 2009 coup d’état against Honduran President Mel Zelaya. He was deposited in his pajamas in Costa Rica courtesy of the armed forces, I am posting a series of photographs I took at Toncontin Airport in Tegucigalpa on Jan. 27 of this year. http://salem-news.com/articles/june272010/honduras-coup-bf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june272010/honduras-coup-bf.php Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:55:00 PDT The head of the Venezuelan state oil company PdVSA declared yesterday that the government is to nationalise 11 oilrigs previously operated by a US petroleum firm after the company closed down production and refused to negotiate a new services agreement. PdVSA President Rafael Ramirez said that the nationalisation would “boost domestic production of hydrocarbons and strengthen the policy of full oil sovereignty.” http://salem-news.com/articles/june252010/venezuela-oil-.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june252010/venezuela-oil-.php Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:55:00 PDT On June 15, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez dispatched the following complaint from his Twitter account, which spanned two tweets and was couched between expressions in Venezuelan slang: "The gringo government accuses us of anything and everything, but today marks 5 years since the extradition request of the granterrorista Posada Carriles, to which they haven’t even responded..." http://salem-news.com/articles/june172010/venezuela-immigration-bf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june172010/venezuela-immigration-bf.php Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:00:00 PDT The talks between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resulted in a substantial package of joint agreements. These will be used to develop cooperation in such areas as aircraft and ship building, energy, education, transport and agriculture. http://salem-news.com/articles/april042010/chavez-putin.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april042010/chavez-putin.php Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:08:00 PDT At dawn on Monday a U.S. registered plane used for drug trafficking was intercepted and seized, said the Minister of People's Power for Interior and Justice Tareck El Aissami. The minister noted that the plane, which had come from Central America, illegally entered Venezuelan airspace and refused to communicate with Venezuelan air traffic controllers. It was immediately intercepted and forced to land, he explained. http://salem-news.com/articles/january142010/venez_plane.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january142010/venez_plane.php Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:15:00 PST Friday's violation of Venezuelan airspace by a US military plane is another example of the escalation in provocations against Venezuela and evidence of the danger US military presence in the region represents. The US plane had flown over a strategic Venezuelan military base on La Orchila. http://salem-news.com/articles/january102010/venezeula_eg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january102010/venezeula_eg.php Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:48:00 PST Venezuela has scrambled two F-16 fighter jets to ward off a US military plane. President Hugo Chavez ordered the fighters to confront a US P-3 maritime patrol aircraft that had purportedly violated Venezuela's airspace. http://salem-news.com/articles/january092010/chavez_jets.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january092010/chavez_jets.php Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:03:00 PST Maybe I am a little slow at the draw here, but strange ironies and coincidences in this week's contest for the most appreciated woman in the world. http://salem-news.com/articles/july182008/miss_universe_7-17-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july182008/miss_universe_7-17-08.php Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:38:00 PDT Sometimes life is as awesome as it is tragic, and that is no easy competition in this day and age. Last week's surprise rescue of Ingrid Betancourt from FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, shows that even a highly remote long-shot can be reality and that people are brave, very brave, in their willingness to help an innocent person regain their freedom. Betancourt is a 46-year old French-Colombian politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist, who was kidnapped by the FARC on February 23rd 2002 while campaigning for the presidency. FARC has held several hundred people hostage over the years, as bargaining chips for their political maneuvering. http://salem-news.com/articles/july052008/betancourt_rescued_7-5-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july052008/betancourt_rescued_7-5-08.php Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:13:00 PDT He still has his share of critics, but Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is removing obstacles that he believes could eventually be used as a reason for a preemptive strike against his country. http://salem-news.com/articles/june172008/chavez_removing_obstacles_6-17-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june172008/chavez_removing_obstacles_6-17-08.php Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:45:00 PDT Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead announced today the re-establishment of the U.S. Fourth Fleet and assigned Rear Adm. Joseph D. Kernan, currently serving as commander, Naval Special Warfare Command, as its new commander. Fourth Fleet will be responsible for U.S. Navy ships, aircraft and submarines operating in the Caribbean, and Central and South America. Effective July 1st, the command will have operational responsibility for U.S. Navy assets assigned from east and west coast fleets to operate in the SOUTHCOM area. http://salem-news.com/articles/april242008/fourth_fleet_4-24-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april242008/fourth_fleet_4-24-08.php Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:49:00 PDT