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VENEZUELA: Gov’t, Opposition Accuse Each Other of Plotting Violence
The Venezuelan government and the opposition are pointing accusatory fingers at each other about alleged plans to foment violence, with sights on this month's signature-gathering campaign for putting President Hugo Chávez's mandate to a referendum.LATIN AMERICA: Andean Unrest Fails to Win Washington’s Attention
The events of October in Bolivia and Colombia, and the tensions that are stirring in Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, signal the fundamental challenges of democracy in the Andean Community, but have yet to become a U.S. foreign policy priority./ARTS WEEKLY/ VENEZUELA: A Native Musical Treasure-Trove
The largest collection of native Latin America musical instruments is found in Venezuela, where a group of musicologists and anthropologists have maintained an orchestra dedicated to disseminating and teaching the region's ethnic music - and to keeping it alive.POLITICS-VENEZUELA: Military Disobedience Gives Way to Ballot Box
The desolation of Altamira Plaza in the Venezuelan capital, an opposition stronghold where a group of military officers proclaimed civil disobedience to President Hugo Chávez one year ago, gives silent testimony to the clout of the ballot box as a means of fighting for power.VENEZUELA: Military Disobedience Gives Way to Ballot Box
The desolation of Altamira Plaza in the Venezuelan capital, an opposition stronghold where a group of military officers proclaimed civil disobedience to President Hugo Chávez one year ago, gives silent testimony to the clout of the ballot box as a means of fighting for power.CULTURE-VENEZUELA: Mapoyo Language Nearing Extinction
Only a handful of elderly men still speak Mapoyo, the language of an ethnic group with just 200 surviving members that has lived along the Orinoco river in Venezuela for centuries.EDUCATION-VENEZUELA: University Doors to Open Wider
A half-million secondary school graduates in Venezuela will have the chance to enter university after two decades in which they have been refused admission due to limited space./ARTS WEEKLY/ HISTORY-VENEZUELA: A Realist in Bolivar’s Shadow
María Antonia Bolívar, the "odd" sister of South American Liberator Simón Bolívar has been rescued from the archives of history by Venezuelan researcher Inés Quintero, whose new book reveals how the "realist" opposed her brother's heroic exploits and passionately defended the Spanish Crown.PETROLEUM: OPEC Decisions and Tribulations Push Up Prices
Prices for crude oil saw a six-percent increase this week, after the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) sent signals that it will shore up prices, potentially through new cuts in production.ECONOMY-VENEZUELA: Forecasts Are Rosy, but Cash Not Flowing
The Venezuelan economy will begin to see growth by the end of 2003 and it will continue 2004, after a record-setting decline, say experts, but they warn of the negative impacts of the government's foreign-exchange controls that have bound the hands of importers.VENEZUELA-DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Oil a Pawn in Bilateral Relations
Venezuela and the Dominican Republic to try Friday at the United Nations to smooth out diplomatic tensions that have already undermined a petroleum programme that for 23 years has served as an example of South-South cooperation./ARTS WEEKLY/ FILM-VENEZUELA: Don Drug Trafficker
Venezuelan-Uruguayan filmmaker José Ramón Novoa is working on the final takes of the feature film "El Don", one of the few cinematic productions being filmed this year in Venezuela, with the aim of premeiring next year.VENEZUELA: Pro-Chavez Gunmen Cleared of Charges
A Venezuelan judge on Wednesday absolved four supporters of President Hugo Chávez who were accused of shooting at the crowds of people taking part in an opposition march on Apr. 11, 2002.COMMUNICATIONS-LATAM: Telecentres to Narrow Digital Divide
Several Latin American governments are setting up telecentres where people can surf the Internet, often free of charge, in an attempt to narrow the digital divide within their societies, which is perhaps larger than the gap that separates them from the industrialised world.ENVIRONMENT-VENEZUELA: Life-Protecting Lightning
Venezuela's spectacular Catatumbo lightning phenomenon, which contributes to restoring the Earth's atmospheric ozone layer, continues today thanks in great part to the marshlands national park at the southern end of Lake Maracaibo.ENVIRONMENT-LATIN AMERICA: Protected Areas – On Paper Only
Nearly 25 percent of Latin American territory is under some sort of nature protection legislation, but just a half-dollar per hectare goes towards management and monitoring of these areas, says a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)./ARTS WEEKLY/ LITERATURE-VENEZUELA: Invasion of Eroticism
Erotic literature has won respect as an art form in Venezuela with the publishing success of the collection "Letra erecta" (Erect Letter), dedicated to this genre which is breathing new life into a sluggish book industry.HEALTH-SOUTH AMERICA: Yellow Fever Takes Heavy Toll
Outbreaks of yellow fever have claimed the lives of 84 people in five South American countries so far this year, despite the vigorous fight to eradicate the mosquitoes that spread the disease in the countryside and to prevent them from reaching the cities.
Protected Areas – On Paper Only
Many of the 2,267 zones under protective legislation in Latin America and the Caribbean exist only on the paper that created them, says the United Nations Environment Program, stressing that the provisions for management and protection must be put into practice.VENEZUELA: Rain God Gets His Own Planet
A "mini-planet" far out in our solar system, discovered by astronomers at a Venezuelan observatory, will bear the name Huya (Juyá), the rain god of the Wayúu Indians who live on the arid Guajira Peninsula of northern Venezuela and Colombia.VENEZUELA: Land Reform on Full Throttle
The Venezuelan government has distributed a total of one million hectares to 41,000 families in seven months as part of a land reform programme whose five-year goal is to settle 500,000 families on 10 million hectares.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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