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Gadhafi's Latin America Allies Criticize Military Strikes
By not in system - AOL NewsCARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez condemned military strikes against Libya on Saturday, accusing the United States and its European allies of attacking the country to seize its oil. Chavez's ally and mentor Fidel Castro raised similar concerns in a column written before the first strikes, while Bolivian President Evo Morales also accused world powers of intervening with an eye to the North African country's oil. Chavez, who has long-standing ties to Moammar Gadhafi, has urged mediation and called it "disgusting" that the U.S., France and other countries are taking ...
Libya Captures 3 Dutch Marines; May Accept Chavez Plan
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsForces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi have captured three Dutch marines who swooped into Libya by helicopter to evacuate stranded civilians, in the first known case of foreigners being kidnapped by the dictator's regime in the nearly three-week-long popular rebellion that's split the country. In related developments today: The Libyan government has accepted a plan by Gadhafi's friend Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to seek a negotiated solution to the uprising, according to a Reuters report. Reports that the Arab League had shown interest in Chavez's proposal to send an international ...
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez Stands by His Old Ally Gadhafi
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez has refused to condemn the bloody crackdown being carried out by his "friend," Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, and warned that the U.S. is preparing to invade the North African nation and steal its oil reserves. "Since everybody is going around saying Gadhafi is a murderer, is Chavez going to say it?" the president said in a speech to students in Caracas, according to Agence France-Presse. "Well, I do not know that to be the case. And from this distance, I am not going to condemn him. That would make me a coward, and he has been a friend for a long ...
Venezuela Congress Grants Chavez Decree Powers
By not in system - AOL NewsCARACAS, Venezuela (Dec. 17) -- Venezuelan lawmakers granted President Hugo Chavez broad powers Friday to enact laws by decree, undermining the clout of a new congress that takes office next month with a bigger opposition bloc. Chavez opponents condemned the move as a power grab, saying the law will be a blank check for the leftist leader to rule without consulting lawmakers. The National Assembly approved the special powers for 18 months. A new congress goes into session Jan. 5 with an opposition contingent large enough to hinder approval of some types of major laws. Opposition lawmakers ...
Scores Feared Dead After Colombian Landslide
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Dec. 6) -- Up to 200 people are believed to be buried beneath rubble from a deadly landslide that destroyed at least 10 homes in the northwestern Colombian city of Medellin. Emergency teams using sniffer dogs have so far rescued seven people, the BBC reported, and one body has been recovered. However, the scale of the tragedy means that the death toll from Sunday's landslide will almost certainly climb in the coming days. "We are focused on moving rubble to see if we find survivors," Cesar Uruena, a Red Cross operations deputy director, told Agence France-Presse. "The landslide buried 10 ...
Chavez's Anti-US Imperialism Tour Rolls On
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Oct. 21) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has arrived in Syria for talks with his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, the latest stop on a foreign tour intended to counter what he calls U.S. "imperialism." Chavez flew to Damascus on Wednesday night after a two-day visit to Iran. During his stay in the Islamic Republic, the leftist leader signed 11 energy and trade agreements that will bolster cooperation between the two OPEC members, including a deal to establish a joint Iranian-Venezuelan oil shipping company, Iran's state-run Press TV noted. The outspoken leftist leader also ...
Venezuela's Chavez Visits 'Second Home' Iran
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Oct. 19) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in Iran for talks with his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to media reports. Discussions between the two leaders will focus on the establishment of a joint Iranian-Venezuelan oil shipping company and increasing cooperation between the countries' energy sectors, Iran's state-run, English-language news service Press TV reported. Israeli newspaper Haaretz noted that bilateral trade between the two nations -- which have signed 186 economic agreements over the past five years -- is valued at $4.6 billion. Vahid Salemi, ...
Ecuador's Rebellion Quelled, but Not Its Fiscal Woes
By Emily Schmall - AOL News
(Oct. 1) -- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said today he would offer "no pardon or forgiveness" to the national police force for its role in what he claimed was an attempt to overthrow him. But while he has regained the upper hand, Correa is still hard-pressed for answers to the severe economic problems that lurk behind Thursday's violent clash, which killed at least three people, according to The Associated Press. Correa had to be rescued by the military after police barricaded him Thursday in a Quito hospital, where he was treated for inhaling tear gas police fired at him in a ...
Chavez's Opponents Make Congressional Gains
By not in system - AOL NewsCARACAS, Venezuela (Sept. 27) -- President Hugo Chavez's opponents blocked him from capturing an overwhelming majority in Venezuela's congressional election, making gains that could challenge the firebrand leader's tight grip on power. With the vast majority of votes from Sunday's election counted, Chavez's socialist party won at least 96 of the 165 seats in the National Assembly, while the opposition coalition won at least 61 seats, National Electoral Council president Tibisay Lucena said early Monday. The remaining eight seats either went to a small splinter party or had not yet been ...
Report: Castro Backs Israel's Right to Exist
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Sept. 23) -- Fidel Castro has distanced himself from the anti-Israeli rhetoric made by some of his leftist Latin American proteges and declared that the Jewish state definitely has the right to exist. "Yes it does, without a doubt," Castro, 84, told U.S. journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic magazine, according to a report published Wednesday. Asked if Cuba was prepared to re-establish diplomatic relations with Israel, the former Cuban president -- who handed power to his brother Raul in 2006 -- said that such things take time. Sponsored Links In the same interview, the Cuban ...
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