VENEZUELA ANALYSIS

Christian Science Monitor: Venezuela flush with cash extends regional muscle
Now, freed from worries about domestic political opposition, Mr. Chavez is using his new wealth to extend his influence beyond his nation's borders -- and perhaps escalate his long-running confrontation with Washington, say observers.

CPC willing to promote China-Venezuela ties: official

Chavez Heads to China to Expand Venezuela Energy Ties

Venezuela reiterates intention to normalize ties with US


Testing the currents of multipolarity
At present, the US has lost the position that it was perceived to have after the fall of the Soviet Union as the undisputed global superpower presiding over an economic order integrating a world of market democracies.
By Dr. Michael A. Weinstein


Cuba and Venezuela pen Alternative against US-Backed Free Trade Agreement


Activists Urge Venezuela to Expose Abuses by the National Endowment for Democracy
Open Letter to President Hugo Chavez, and to the People of Venezuela


Venezuela: An inspiring example of struggle for all the Latin American peoples
At the end of November supporters of the Hands Off Venezuela campaign in London interviewed Zona Marginal ... a Colombian hip hop band that came to Britain invited by the Colombia Solidarity Campaign.


Bankruptcy scrambles; Venezuela well advised to look to its own currency
People in resource-rich producer countries like Venezuela would be very wise indeed to sell off dollars and other US assets, like CITGO, before the effects of this crooked chicanery and voodoo economics cause more problems than they already have.


China to further energy cooperation with Venezuela


Cuba, Venezuela reject US-sponsored FTAA, back Chavez plan


Cuba and Venezuela slam US Free Trade Area of the Americas
Both nations proposed a more equal alternative based in mutual cooperation rather than in pure pro-market policies.


Colombia Captures 'Chancellor' of FARC Rebel Group
The US is against the FARC because they wont invest their drug money in WALL STREET. -vig


KAZINFORM: Venezuela seeks cooperation with Russia in oil, gas spheres


Gazprom may participate in oil/gas production of Venezuela.


Venezuela cracks down on dollar dealers


VENEZUELA: Chavez calls for world ‘anti-globalisation' network
Stuart Munckton
At a government-sponsored World Forum of Intellectuals and Artists in Defence of Humanity, held in Caracas on December 2-3, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's radical left-wing president, “pledged to provide an office and resources in Venezuela to initiate a ‘network of networks' of social organisations and institutions around the world working to build alternative models of development in the face in globalisation”, the Venzuelanalysis.com website reported.


Hugo Chavez' Lat - Am "Axis Against the USA"
By Alexandra Beech
Summary: An editorial on Chavez's talk of Venezuela/Brazil/Argentina
alliance against U.S. free-trade practices. Editorial is pro-U.S.


Top Secret U.S. Army Document
Reveals U.S. Interference in Venezuela's Political Affairs
by Roy S. Carson
Inasmuch as Venezuela is the fifth largest oil producer in the world, and the third largest supplier to the United States, it appears plausible to conclude that oil must be a significant factor in the US drive to effect regime change in the country. Yet Washington has opposed governments and movements throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the world with equal determination, without oil or any other resource being a factor. Hugo Chavez is against the excesses of US foreign policy and globalization and has let the world know this, which makes it plain to Washington that he's not of suitable client material. For the empire to let him get away with this would be to set a very bad example for other non-believers.
William Blum, Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire [Monroe, ME, Common Courage Press, 2005] pp. 181-182.


U.S. and Latin America at Odds Over Terrorism Threat
By Kieran Murray


VENEZUELA KEEN ON STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH RUSSIA
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