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  • Venezuela to Host CELAC Ministerial Meeting

    Caracas, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela will host the Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in the Social Development and Poverty Eradication sector, to be held in July, announced official sources today. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said that he met today with diplomatic representatives from 33 Latin American countries accredited in this ...

  • Endy Chavez has played ninth-inning hero before as a Met | Mariners notebook

    ANAHEIM, Calif. — As impressive as Endy Chavez looked hitting that ninth-inning, pinch-hit home run for the Mariners in Cleveland on Monday, he's done it all before. Chavez became the first Mariners player in 23 years to hit a go-ahead homer in the ninth inning or later. Ken Griffey Jr. did it in 1990. But on Tuesday, Chavez, who weighs all of 170 pounds and isn't known for home ...

  • Venezuelas Maduro warns of psychological war

    President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday denounced as "psychological war" a leaked audio recording that purports to show a power struggle among key followers of the late Hugo ...

  • Oil Prices Drop After Gasoline Stocks Jump

    U.S. crude futures prices fell below $96 a barrel on Wednesday after an unexpected increase in U.S. gasoline stockpiles ahead of the summer driving season in the world's largest oil ...

  • Oil Prices Have Been Rigged For Years European Union Just Now Starting To Investigate

    they’re launching an investigation into the rigging of oil prices. It’s long been known that much of what drives the price of oil, and therefore gasoline, food, and other products, is not the free market, but rather, the biggest players in the oil market, and yet this has largely gone untouched while people throw blame here, there and everywhere for the high price of gasoline. The ...

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Friday the 13th Part 2 [DVD]

Friday the 13th Part 2 [DVD]

When Sean S. Cunninghams low-budget independent shocker Friday the 13th was picked up by Paramount Pictures and successfully marketed into a massively profitable hit in the spring of 1980, it was a no-brainer that a sequel would follow. Never mind, of course, th ... ...

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  • Venezuela parliament resumes 3 weeks after brawl

    Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during the departure of Simon Bolivar's school sailing ship at the naval dock in La Guaira Venezuela, Monday, May 20, 2013. The ship with 175 people on board starts his twenty-fifth cruise abroad instruction. (AP Photo/Ariana ...

  • Venezuelan Banker and Miami Brokerage Workers Are Accused of Fraud

    CARACAS, Venezuela ...

  • Venezuelan opposition airs conspiracy recordings against Maduro from his own party

    The Venezuelan opposition has released an audio recording that it said contains a prominent member of the ruling party discussing political strategy with a Cuban intelligence officer. Opposition lawmaker Ismael García said the recording captures a phone conversation between state TV personality Mario Silva, a staunch government ally, and a Cuban identified as Lieutenant Colonel Aramis ...

  • Spanish couple kidnapped in Colombia

    Two Spanish tourists have been kidnapped in Colombia while driving in La Guajira, near the Venezuelan border. The couple disappeared on Friday, but Spanish authorities only confirmed the kidnapping on Tuesday. The kidnappers contacted the hostages' family and identified themselves as members of the left-wing rebels Farc, Colombian authorities say. The group, which last year vowed to stop ...

  • Venezuela Black and Blue

    The left eye of Julio Borges, a deputy in the Venezuelan National Assembly from the opposition party, Primero Justicia, is the best symbol of the way things are going in Venezuelan politics. When I interviewed him two weeks ago, he had a deep purple stripe under his eye, as if he were an athlete wearing a streak of eye black to avoid being dazzled by the sun. But his stripe was the result of a ...

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