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Venezuelan inflation: the lowest in 18 years
January inflation rate was 0.8 percent, similar to the previous month and down from 1.9 percent from the same period last year, the central bank (BCV) said.
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Business sector is optimistic
A poll presented by the Venezuelan American Chamber VenAmCham, during the 2006 Economical Perspectives Forum, revealed the GDP will grow 7%. Oil GDP will grow 6%, while non-oil GDP will grow 9%.
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Armando León
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Interview with Armando León, member of the Board of Directors of the Venezuelan Central Bank
Armando León, member of the Board of Directors of the Venezuelan Central Bank, said the national economy has entered a 'long term growing process, unless we make mistakes from the past'.
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Bloomberg: Venezuela Tax Collection Rose 70% in 2005 to $17.9 Bln
Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, said tax collection rose 70 percent last year as a growing economy and a crackdown on evasion boosted revenue.
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BMI Daily Financial Alert: Venezuela still on a roll
The stimulatory impact of President Hugo Chávez's expansionary macroeconomic policy is well evident from year-end data for 2005. With government spending skyrocketing thanks to the windfall revenues from high oil prices, the economy was bound to experience a significant upsurge.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez, Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner, and Brazil's President Lula da Silva
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Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina plan 8,000 kilometer gas pipeline
A new gas pipeline, which would run nearly the entire length of the South American continent, will be one of the largest infrastructure projects in Latin American history, if plans of Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez, Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner, and Brazil's President Lula da Silva work out. The three presidents met during their third trilateral meeting in Brasilia, where they discussed the plan, along with other topics related to Latin American integration.
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$2.2 billion dollars to increase refining in Latin America
PDVSA's Vice President of Refining, Alejandro Granados, said the Venezuelan corporation will invest 2 billion 176 million dollars in refineries around Latin America. Under the Petroamerica agreement, the company plans to build a refinery in Brazil, together with the state-owned Petrobras and reform three existing refineries in Cuba, Jamaica and Uruguay.
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Spanish president José Rodríguez Zapatero |
Spanish President Rodríguez Zapatero defends ties with Venezuela
Spanish president José Rodríguez Zapatero said: "Hugo Chávez deserves respect because he was elected by the vote" |
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Miguel Angel Moratinos
Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Moratinos: Aircraft sale to Venezuela does not destabilize the region
During an official visit to Vienna, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Miguel Angel Moratinos, said the aircraft sale to Venezuela 'will not destabilize' the region and said he does not share 'the reasons alleged' by the US to deny the export license.
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Venezuela donates more heating oil to U.S. poor
Venezuela expanded a program of subsidizing costly home-heating oil for the U.S. poor with a pact in Maine.
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Venezuela's Jews defend President in flap over remarks
The Venezuelan Jewish community leadership and several major American Jewish groups are accusing the Simon Wiesenthal Center of rushing to judgment by charging Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, with making antisemitic remarks.
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World social forum: visitors look to Chávez' example
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign were among the thousands of international visitors in Caracas for this year's World Social Forum, which ended January 29.
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StephenLendman: Venezuela's Bolivarian Movement: its promise and perils
Venezuela today, under its democratically elected President, Hugo Chávez Frias, is imbued with the spirit of Bolivarianism. It's based on the vision of Simón Bolívar, the Caracas born 19th century general who defeated the Spanish, liberated half of South America, believed in redistributive social policies and a united South America all things Chávez has adopted in his rhetoric and actions
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Gustavo Dudamel |
The Times: Gustavo Dudamel the Venezuelan sensation
Concert with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
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Tube travel Venezuelan style
Caracas Metro, as run by the government, is more than a means of transport. It is a whole scheme of education in citizenship.
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