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washingtonpost.com: Since Alberto Vollmer, left, took over his family's rum company, he turned the firm around and revolutionized its relationship with the poor barrios that surround it. washingtonpost.com

In Venezuela, a Scion Opens His Family Land to the Poor

washingtonpost.com     yesterday          

EL CONSEJO, Venezuela Alberto Vollmer is as blue-blooded as they get -- a blond, rakishly handsome heir of one of Venezuela's richest and oldest families. It is a family that owns the fabled Santa Teresa sugar cane hacienda and...                

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Venezuela, India and the Built Environment

groundreport.com     Jul 17, 2008          

From an NPR story earlier this week, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has used rhetoric which encouraged squatters to move onto the properties of wealthy land owners. Dozens of squatters squatted on the Hacienda Santa Teresa back in the...                

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[analysis] Deconstructing Washington Post's Anti-Chávez Propaganda

venezuelanalysis.com     Jul 7, 2008   1 related          

Jackson Diehl, a Deputy Editor of the Washington Post, recently wrote a column under the title, “Venezuela's Chávez Fears Caracas Mayor” about Leopoldo Eduardo López, a mayor of Chacao, a district of Caracas, Venezuela. No...                

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The Venezuelan Libertarian :: Another plane crashes, three die

to2blogs.com     Jul 4, 2008          

Liberty, Individualism & Market for Venezuela Another plane crashes, three die por Larry Nieves 331 palabras, 2 vistas Last wednesday a twin engine plane "Piper Cheyenne" (YV1165) crashed near the Charallave airport south of...                

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Immaturity politics

daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com     Jun 30, 2008   2 related          

There has been a small scandal of sorts lately. Leopoldo Lopez, the Chacao Mayor running for Caracas Mayor at large went to the U.S. to explain to whomever would listen why the Russian/ruffian list was unconstitutional and...                

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The Rival Chávez Won't Permit

washingtonpost.com     Jun 30, 2008   5 related          

Defenders of Hugo Chávez like to argue that there is no alternative to the Venezuelan caudillo other than the feckless and unpopular politicians who preceded him in the 1990s. The simple refutation of that canard is Leopoldo...                

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Prettyboy Lopez is now SERIOUSLY disqualified... (News of the Restless)

progressivebloggers.ca     Jun 28, 2008   1 related          

And boy, am I ever laughing my ass off over this. The Attorney General, Luisa Ortega Diaz, informed that the Public Ministry has opened an investigation against the mayor of Chacao, Leopoldo Lopez, for allegedly attacking an...                

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Chavez gives resources to communal councils aiming the habitat transformation

abn.info.ve     Jun 19, 2008          

This Thursday, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, gives resources to communal councils as part of the program of habitat integral transformation, which is fostered by the Venezuelan...                

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miamiherald.com: Leopoldo Lopez, mayor of Chacao, center, and his wife Lilian Tintori, left, hand out roses during Mothers miamiherald.com

Chavez opponents face election blacklist

wtop.com     May 23, 2008   14 related          

Leopoldo Lopez, mayor of Chacao, center, raises his arms during Mothers' Day celebrations in Caracas, Sunday, May 11, 2008. But the popular politician's plan to challenge incumbent Juan Barreto, mayor of Greater Caracas, later this year could be thwarted by 26 criminal...                

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venezuelanalysis.com: UNT President Omar Barboza (El Tiempo) venezuelanalysis.com

Venezuelan Opposition Divided as It Seeks to Nominate Candidates

venezuelanalysis.com     May 17, 2008          

A controversy has broken out inside Venezuela’s largest opposition party, A New Era (UNT), over a lack of democracy in the party’s internal candidate selection process for the upcoming elections. UNT President Omar Barboza, announced that the party had selected candidates for 314 of Venezuela’s...                

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