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MUSIC: Serrat is Big Box Office
Spanish singer and songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat has been delighting devoted fans in Venezula this month with his "Birds Eye View," series of concerts - featuring his 33 years of music and 300 songs of nostalgia and intimacy.VENEZUELA-DRUGS: Government Opens Big Anti-Drugs Drive
Venezuela launched a massive new campaign this week to stem the growing menace of drug trafficking and associated criminal activities.VENEZUELA: Iberia Cancels VIASA Operations//REPEATING//
The operations of VIASA airline, the Venezuelan flag carrier that is controlled by Iberia of Spain, were suspended Thursday as a preventative measure while a general assembly decides on the destiny of the company.VENEZUELA: Iberia Cancels VIASA operations
The operations of the VIASA airline working under the Venezuelan flag but controlled by the Spanish company Iberia, were suspended Thursday as a preventative measure while a general assembly decides on the destiny of the company.ENERGY: New Dam Makes Venezuela a Greater Power
Venezuela will became a leading Latin American power supplier with the opening of the Macagua II dam on the Caroni river Thursday, providing another 12,918 megawatts to the nation's hydroelectric centres./REPEAT/ INTEGRATION: Peru Opens Year of Definitions for Andean Community
The battered image of the Andean Community, both within the bloc and beyond, means 1997 will be a year of definitions for the five members, starting with Peru - the most prickly of the group's nations.INTEGRATION: Peru Opens Year of Definitions for Andean Community
The battered image of the Andean Community, both within the bloc and beyond, means 1997 will be a year of definitions for the five members, starting with Peru - the most prickly of the group's nations.INTEGRATION: Peru Opens Year of Definitions for Andean Community
The battered image of the Andean Community, both within the bloc and beyond, means 1997 will be a year of definitions for the five members, starting with Peru - the most prickly of the group's nations.VENEZUELA: Doctors’ Strike Leads to Talk of State of Emergency
The Venezuelan government is considering declaring a state of emergency to deal with a total strike by doctors - including emergency care - that has thrust the country's public health system into chaos and already left more than 10 victims.TRADE-VENEZUELA: More Liberal Trade with Chile in 1997
A new agreement between Venezuela and Chile comes into effect at the start of 1997 which liberalizes 95 percent of trade between the two nations.VENEZUELA-OUTLOOK: 1997, the Year of the Banking Revolution
The Bank of Venezuela changed overnight to being 60 percent controlled by foreign capital, mostly Spanish, in a revolution of the local financial system which will make itself increasingly felt in 1997.VENEZUELA: Social Rights Take a Battering in 1996
A serious deterioration in economic and social rights and persistent endemic violations of civil and political rights - especially the right to life - marked Venezuela's human rights record in 1996./IPS BULLETIN OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS/ LATIN AMERICA: Jesuits See Dark Side of Economic Adjustment
Eighteen Jesuit leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean have issued a letter denouncing the increase in levels of poverty and the tendency towards individualism in the region./IPS DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN/ LATIN AMERICA: Jesuits See Dark Side of Economic Adjustment
Eighteen Jesuit leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean have issued a letter denouncing the increase in levels of poverty and the tendency towards individualism in the region.RELIGION-ECONOMY: Jesuits See Dark Side of Economic Adjustment
Eighteen Jesuit leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean have issued a letter denouncing the increase in levels of poverty and the tendency towards individualism in the region.VENEZUELA-CRIME: Running Shoes, Horoscopes and Prison Massacres
In oil-rich Venezuela, where 80 percent of the population is dirt-poor, violent crime claimed the lives of 24 people, most of them young, over the weekend. Three were shot to death for their brand-name running shoes.VENEZUELA: Prison Massacre Highlights Collective Irresponsibility
The Venezuelan prison that became a chamber of horrors Tuesday returned to a semblance of normality Wednesday. Visiting day was not suspended, and family members packed the place to confirm that their inmate was not one of the burnt corpses whose images shocked TV-viewers around the world.CHILDREN: Child Sex Trade, an International Crime
A million children per year enter the child sex trade. The activity generates many millions of dollars. Sex tourism catering to paedophiles is growing at a worrying rate. Children from the developing world are the main victims, though there are victims in the industrial North as well.COMMODITIES: Errant Nations return to San Jose Fold
Haiti and Panama will finally return to the San Jose Pact fold from August, regaining their access to super soft loans while helping guarantee the future oil markets of Mexico and Venezuela.COMMODOTIES: Errant Nations return to San Jose Fold
Haiti and Panama will finally return to the San Jose Pact fold from August, regaining their access to super soft loans while helping guarantee the future oil markets of Mexico and Venezuela.VENEZUELA: Indigenous Women Declare War on Acculturation
Indigenous women declared a "war" against any attempt to acculturate - or wipe out - Venezuela's 38 indigenous groups, in their first nationwide meeting that ended Friday.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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