➤ Quote of the Month: Supervisor John Avalos praising late Hugo Chavez, Melissa Griffin, Local News, Thursday
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Pablo Sandoval had a historic night in Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday, and a few hundred of his closest friends made sure to offer their thoughts on his three-homer game.
“300 text messages, man,” he said Thursday.
He didn’t hear from the other living members of the club he joined, Albert Pujols and Reggie Jackson, but he did get one message he didn’t expect.
“The president [of Venezuela] sent me a tweet yesterday,” he said. “I still can’t believe it.”
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Monica Way
04/04/11 12:53 PM
The wives of four Venezuelan political prisoners whose release was recently demanded by hunger strikers testified against judicial corruption in their country during a press conference last week at the National Press Club. The four women were in the U.S. to petition the Organization of American States to investigate human-rights abuses in Venezuela.
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By:
Monica Way
04/04/11 12:53 PM
The wives of four Venezuelan political prisoners whose release was recently demanded by hunger strikers testified against judicial corruption in their country during a press conference last week at the National Press Club. The four women were in the U.S. to petition the Organization of American States to investigate human-rights abuses in Venezuela.
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Venezuelan students' 23-day hunger strike has succeeded, for the time being, in putting the brakes on President Hugo Chavez’s push for dictatorship. Chavez has already released seven of the 27 political prisoners whom the students claimed were in prison on trumped-up charges, merely for opposing the president's regime.
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On the third and final day of CPAC, Representative (FL) Connie Mack spent his time on the stage denouncing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Calling Chavez the Western equivalent of “ Osama Bin Laden and [Iranian President] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,” Mack asked for America to stand up the Venezuelan leader.
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In Venezuela, if you don’t rewrite contracts when Hugo Chavez tells you to, the government will take your business. That’s what a U.S. based oil company learned this week.
Agence France-Presse has the story:
Venezuela’s legislature has voted to nationalize 11 oil rigs owned by the US firm Helmerich & Payne.
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Former Weather Underground leaders William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, as well as Code Pink founder Jodie Evans, helped organize the Free Gaza Movement, which launched the six-ship flotilla from Turkey to Israel that ended in a violent clash with Israeli Defense Forces, BigGovernment.com reported.
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A leftist guerrilla movement responsible for many kidnappings and attacks inside Mexico is secretly receiving funding from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, U.S. and Mexican intelligence officials told The Washington Examiner.
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hear a collective groan go up when President Barack Obama announced that he planned to deal with his recent setbacks by “speaking directly to the American people.” After 158 interviews and 411 speeches in 2009, who’s clamoring to hear more from a president whose microphone addiction rivals that of President Bill Clinton?
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