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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By:
Ian James and Jorge Rueda
10/23/12 6:51 PM
Venezuelans are celebrating their homegrown baseball heroes as a record contingent of players from the country heads into the World Series with the Giants and Detroit Tigers.
Nine Venezuelans, including five with the Giants, will feature in the series starting tonight — the most ever.
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It’s the end of the world as we know it.
Well, not exactly.
In 2011, we saw earthquakes, tsunamis, a royal wedding, a continued stagnant economy and civil uprisings in the Middle East and at home. What can beat all that in 2012? Perhaps only the end of the world.
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Danisa Landaeta, 30, was arrested at Miami International Airport for drawing a picture of a bomb and writing “BOOM” on her friend’s suitcase as a joke. The friend checked in her luggage for a flight from Miami to Venezuela when the ominous picture was noticed. Police spent some $1,000 closing down much of the terminal for an hour and bringing in a dog. Landaeta confessed and was being held on $12,500 bail for a hoax bomb charge.
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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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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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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told ABC News that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's confidants have been speaking to other nations “allegedly on Gadhafi’s behalf” for exile options.
She did not say which nations Gadhafi’s regime has been speaking to but former Libyan officials who spoke to The Examiner said Venezuela, headed by American foe Hugo Chavez, is one. Chavez is a close ally of Gadhafi and defended him at the beginning of the uprising.
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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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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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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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