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New Hampshire To Accept Free Oil From Chavez

Two years ago, New Hampshire refused to accept heating oil from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the pro-Castro U.S. critic who once called President Bush "the devil." But with fuel prices rising, well, free oil is free oil. With the state's blessing, New Hampshire residents will be receiving some of the fuel this winter.

Pew Research Center: Help from Hugo Chavez: Free Heating Oil for Needy U.S. Families

While Bush seems unable to help our poor people, his arch enemy Hugo Chavez steps in. How humiliating is that for Bush.

Exclusive: Peace Corps, Fulbright Scholar Asked to 'Spy' on Cubans, Venezuelans

In an apparent violation of U.S. policy, Peace Corps volunteers and a Fulbright scholar were asked by a U.S. Embassy official in Bolivia "to basically spy" on Cubans and Venezuelans in the country, according to Peace Corps personnel and the Fulbright scholar involved.

Bush's Latin Reality Show

One thing had to dawn on Bush while on a recent seven-day, five country Latin American tour: the Monroe Doctrine is deader than a doorknob.

Chavez: Rice deputy is ‘professional killer’

Who did they swear in ... there at the White House as deputy secretary of state? A professional killer: John Negroponte, Chavez said. Chavez did not elaborate, but his government has previously accused Negroponte of playing a key role in the Contra war against the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua when he served as ambassador to Honduras...

Chavez says he has White House informant

Citing what he said were warnings from an alleged White House informant, Chavez told thousands of supporters at a campaign rally that President Bush has ordered him to be killed before he leaves office in 2008. Bush "has said that before he goes, Hugo Chavez shouldn't be the president of Venezuela," Chavez told the crowd. "The president of the United States has said it, especially in recent days. What he doesn't know is that I have friends in the White House." The Venezuelan leader has claimed before that the U.S. government is out to kill him allegations that U.S. officials deny.

Rise Up Against the Empire

Text of the Hugo Chavez address to the United Nations

Chavez: U.S. may have planned 9/11

The hypothesis is not absurd ... that those towers could have been dynamited, Chavez said in a speech to supporters. A building never collapses like that, unless it s with an implosion. The hypothesis that is gaining strength ... is that it was the same U.S. imperial power that planned and carried out this terrible terrorist attack or act against its own people and against citizens of all over the world, Chavez said. Why? To justify the aggressions that immediately were unleashed on Afghanistan, on Iraq.

It's Always Hugo, Hugo, Hugo

... as we edge closer to December's Venezuelan elections, it's time to start talking about Venezuelan politics in the same way we talk about politics in Canada or Europe or anywhere else. There are always at least two sides in democratic contests, and there are policy differences that get voters' attention. But we never hear about those things in relation to Venezuela -- it's like Chavez is governing in a vacuum.

A Letter To Hugo Chavez

The writer is general counsel of The Washington Post Co. and president of the Inter American Press Association. She was accompanied on the IAPA mission to Venezuela by newspaper representatives from Chile, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.

Bloomberg.com:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will travel to Panama on June 22 to broaden energy ties between the two Latin American countries.

Venezuela to fix oil prices at $50 barrel says Greg Palast

The US DoE estimates that Chavez controls 1.3 trillion barrels of oil - more than the entire declared oil reserves of the rest of the planet. Hugo Chavez told Newsnight's Greg Palast that "Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world. In the future Venezuela won't have any more oil - but that's in the 22nd century. Venezuela has oil for 200 years." Chavez will ask the OPEC meeting in June to formally accept that Venezuela's reserves are now bigger than Saudi Arabia's.

US bans arms sales to Venezuela

The US state department said the decision was taken because of what it said was Venezuela's lack of support for counter-terrorism efforts. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the ban "doesn't matter to us at all", saying it confirmed that Washington wanted to trample on smaller countries.

Chavez: Imprison 'genocidal' Bush

Chavez erupted in anger about being "compared to the biggest genocide person alive, in the history of humanity, the president of the United States -- killer, genocidal, immoral -- who should be taken to prison by an international court. I don't know to what you are referring when you compare me to President Bush."

Venezuela plans more oil discounts

Leftist President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said yesterday he would greatly expand the discounted home heating oil program he started last year for needy people in Massachusetts and other northeastern states.