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Venezuela Raises Profile by Offering Edward Snowden Asylum

President Maduro has stated publicly that Venezuela will provide asylum to Mr Snowden for humanitarian reasons.

(CARACAS World Review) - THE SPY novels of author John Le Carre are nothing compared with the antics involving former US National Security Agency worker Edward Snowden - who has been leaking secrets - and Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro.

Mr Snowden, 30, known as ‘the leaker’, divulged top secret work of the NSA in mass surveillance operations with the British government and in spying missions on European governments in a series of exposes in June 2013. He was charged with espionage and theft of government property by the US.

The United States Shows its Contempt for Venezuelan Democracy

Washington's clumsy efforts to de-legitimise Venezuela's election mark a escalation of its push for regime change

(CARACAS The Guardian) - While most of the news on Venezuela in the week since the 14 April presidential election focused on the efforts of losing candidate Henrique Capriles to challenge the results.

Another campaign, based in Washington, was quite revealing, and the two were most definitely related...

Venezuela: Respect the People`s Will; Accept Maduro`s Victory

People everywhere who value justice and dignity should come out openly and endorse Maduro’s victory.

(KUALA LAMPUR) - According to media reports, “thousands of opposition supporters” are protesting the result of the recently concluded presidential election in Venezuela. Violence has begun to tarnish the protests.

Seven persons have been killed so far.

WikiLeaks Cable Reveals US Embassy Strategy to Destabilize Chavez Government

USAID organized 3,000 forums that sought to essentially reconcile Chavez supporters and the political opposition.

(WASHINGTON DC RT) - In a secret US cable published online by WikiLeaks, a former ambassador to Venezuela outlines a comprehensive plan to infiltrate and destabilize former President Hugo Chavez' government.

The document outlined his embassy’s five core objectives in Venezuela since 2004...

Chavez` Singular Legacy

A unique feature of Chavez’ character was to learn from the people, who guided him to become a great teacher.

(GENEVA) - One of the greatest contributions Hugo Chavez Frias made to contemporary history was to activate participatory democracy.

His concept, what he called the Bolivarian Revolution, was to combine structures of the state and parallel communal councils, alongside the Bolivarian social missions that improve the lives of the great mass of Venezuelans.

Hugo Chávez

When Vice President Nicolas Maduro suggested possible American involvement in Chávez’s death, the US State Department called the allegation absurd.

(WASHINGTON DC) - I once wrote about Chilean president Salvador Allende:

Washington knows no heresy in the Third World but genuine independence. In the case of Salvador Allende independence came clothed in an especially provocative costume – a Marxist constitutionally elected who continued to honor the constitution. This would not do. It shook the very foundation stones upon which the anti-communist tower is built:...

Does Hugo Chavez`s Death Mean The End Of His Bolivarian Revolution?

I personally like the idea of a Latin American union similar to the European Union largely free from U.S. control.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - On March 5, 2013, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias, the president of Venezuela, died of a massive heart attack and his cancer was very advanced when he died.

Was his dream of a "Bolivarian Revolution" buried with him?

Chavez: Another CIA Assassination Victim?

The Venezuelan president himself, before he died, wondered aloud whether the US government gave him, and its other leading Latin American enemies, cancer.

(SUNDANCE, Wyoming) - A little over a year ago, on Venezuelan national radio, Hugo Chavez said:

“I don’t know but… it is very odd that we have seen Lugo affected by cancer, Dilma when she was a candidate, me, going into an election year, not long ago Lula and now Cristina…”

President Hugo Chavez, R.I.P.

The world bids farewell to a man who stood up for Venezuela.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - The President of Venezuela, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias, has died at the age of 58 after a long-running battle to regain his health.

He is one of the few men who as a political leader, dared to criticize former U.S. President George W. Bush for his warmongering nation's huge list of mistakes.

Venezuela Donates Free Heating Oil to 100,000 Needy US Households

For the eighth straight year, Venezuela's state oil company is donating free heating oil to hundreds of thousands of needy Americans.

(SAN FRANCISCO Digital Journal) - The CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program has helped more than 1.7 million Americans keep warm since 2005.