CORRUPTION
Mafias and politics in the surroundings
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CORRUPTION. Lieutenant colonel Miguel Angel Urrieta was unlucky to have his phone number on Tatiana Orozco's cell phone; who was labeled as "The Queen of the Rebar." That fact and some text messages exchanged with Orozco were enough for public prosecutors to consider him a party to the shady deals with rebar which spread over a scandal from the steel plants of Sidor.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Chavezism asked the IACHR for help in April 2002
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HUMAN RIGHTS. "Nothing to do with me," an idiom fit for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) as far as Chavezism is concerned. Today, they rail on the organization, but on April 12, 2002, they appealed to the IACHR help.
News This Week
Saturday May 26, 2012
Friday May 25, 2012
- Private sector has deposits abroad totaling USD 143 billion
- Authorities call for tougher power saving measures in gov't agencies
- Colombia, Venezuela agree to strengthen border security
- Panama ambassador criticizes alleged "concentration of powers" in Venezuela
- Top justice terms "sovereign" Venezuela's potential pullout of the IACHR
- Venezuelan industrial sector limits investments to maintenance
- Santos highlights Venezuela's cooperation against Colombia's FARC
- Venezuela's oil basket tumbles again; hits USD 101.63 per barrel
- Venezuela arrests 10 suspects for murder of Colombian soldiers
- Gov't: Plan to reinforce Venezuelan power system is under way
- Executive Office to control drug sales in Venezuela
- Chávez to enact Organic Code of Criminal Procedure via enabling law
Thursday May 24, 2012
- Capriles: "Chávez, get ready because I am going to win the election"
- Price of gold falls below the last valuation of Venezuelan reserves
- Pdvsa's payment of royalties down 76% in January
- Washington: Harassment of opposition in Venezuela and Cuba continues
- Two FARC fronts attack Venezuela-Colombia border
- European Parliament urges Venezuela to remain in the IACHR
- Colombian foreign minister visits Caracas to discuss border security
- Venezuelan antitrust law establishes the use of police forces
- Syria ships naphtha to Venezuela
- Venezuela rejects IACHR's request to investigate security crisis at prison
Wednesday May 23, 2012
- GDP numbers point to deteriorated manufacturing sector
- Chávez recommends opponents to take it easy
- Colombian and Venezuelan armies militarize the border
- Consumption soars 5.7% and shortage of US dollars intensifies
- Nine inmates dead in La Planta clashes
- Ecuador ponders pipeline to buy natural gas from Venezuela and Colombia
- Venezuelan antitrust bill establishes more ways to expropriate
- Venezuela's Chávez kicks off new security mission
- IACHR shows concern about security crisis at Venezuelan jail
Tuesday May 22, 2012
Monday May 21, 2012
- Food sales decline 1.03% in April
- Venezuelan miners lift protest on border with Brazil
- Venezuelan economic growth is to fade if oil prices decline
- Venezuela's foreign deposits increase to USD 40 billion
- Venezuela's oil revenue in 2012 amount to USD 21 billion
- Venezuelan oil imports leap by 172%
- Thus far, Chávez has issued 33 laws via enabling law
- Venezuela purchases Russian long-range rocket launching system
- Inmates in La Planta prison had enough ammo for a month
- Non-oil exports fall 8% in the first quarter
- Venezuelan government and agriculture sector lack coordination
- Road connecting Venezuela and Brazil closed for 96 hours
Judiciary
HUMAN RIGHTS "To err is human, to forgive is divine." Almost five years after the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) upheld a decision from a trial court that declared "barred by the statute of limitations" one of the cases of murder during the riots in and around Caracas in February and March 1989, known as the Caracazo events, the high court thought it over and nullified the decision that let the crime go unpunished.
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Venezuelan Economy This Week
- Executive Office to control drug sales in Venezuela
- Private sector has deposits abroad totaling USD 143 billion
- Price of gold falls below the last valuation of Venezuelan reserves
- Venezuelan antitrust law establishes the use of police forces
- Consumption soars 5.7% and shortage of US dollars intensifies
- GDP numbers point to deteriorated manufacturing sector
- Central bank liquid reserves slump to USD 1.6 billion
- Venezuelan imports from Russia soar 308% in 2008-2010
- Venezuela's foreign deposits increase to USD 40 billion
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