21. U.S. Congressional Committee Shifts, State Referendums Could Impact Latin America Policy
(Matching tags: cuba, venezuela, trade, Honduras, mexico, Elections 2012, congress, drugs)

... House Foreign Affairs Committee, and therefore will have to abandon his dream of having Venezuela declared a state sponsor of terrorism. He will be gone from Congress, but not forgotten – his entertaining ...

22. U.S. Election Monitors Comment on Venezuela’s October 7 Elections
(Matching tags: elections, venezuela)

Most of the news and opinion pieces about Venezuela that appear in the U.S. press paint an overwhelmingly negative picture of the country’s political landscape.  But Venezuela’s October 7 presidential ...

23. More Fallout From the Venezuelan Election
(Matching tags: media coverage, elections, venezuela)

As I have noted previously, fake polling and other suspicious activities in previous Venezuelan elections had helped those with a political agenda, including some journalists, advance their interests.  ...

24. Public Sector Employment in Venezuela Is Not So Large as the Associated Press Suggests
(Matching tags: media coverage, venezuela)

An Associated Press article dated October 9 states that Venezuela has “ at least 2.4 million national government employees, making up 8 percent of the country's population. By comparison, the United ...

25. New York Times Can’t Seem To Understand How Their Side Lost In Venezuela
(Matching tags: media coverage, elections, venezuela)

The New York Times coverage of Venezuela’s election must have been a disappointment to anyone who, even if they don’t like President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, wanted to find out how he managed to win yet ...

26. Venezuelan Elections: Live Blog
(Matching tags: elections, venezuela)

...  For Immediate Release: October 7, 2012   Washington, D.C.- Hugo Chávez’ re-election to another 6-year term shows that Venezuela, like the rest of South America, prefers governments of the left that ...

27. Carter Center Affirms a Clean Electoral Process and Secret Ballot in Venezuela; U.S. Media Offers a Contrasting View, Without Evidence
(Matching tags: media coverage, elections, venezuela)

The Carter Center released its pre-election report on the Venezuelan electoral process yesterday. The response from the U.S. media has, with the exception of a few wire service articles, been silence. ...

28. Oops! Embarrassing Quote in NYT Article Says a Lot About NYT Reporting on Venezuela
(Matching tags: media coverage, elections, venezuela)

In a stunningly one-sided article two days before the Venezuelan election, the New York Times creates a frightening picture of a deteriorating society in which citizens are afraid to vote against the incumbent ...

29. Newsweek Takes a Page from the Weekly World News in Venezuela Commentary
(Matching tags: media coverage, venezuela)

Newsweek has a commentary piece this week by Venezuelan journalist Boris Muñoz which cites anonymous sources as suggesting that Hugo Chávez’s cancer is but a cleverly designed conspiracy meant to distract ...

30. Economic Growth in Venezuela
(Matching tags: coup, media coverage, venezuela, GDP)

Some press reports have noted Venezuela’s economic growth lately, in looking at Chávez’s track record in the run-up to Sunday’s presidential election.  For example, the Associated Press wrote that “the ...

31. Media Bias in Venezuela
(Matching tags: venezuela, media)

Everywhere you look, there are people who are taking seriously the claim that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has a big media advantage over the opposition in the upcoming elections.  The Committee to ...

32. CEPR News September 2012
(Matching tags: venezuela, jobs, unions, taxes, canada, ecuador, 47 percent, Erskine Bowles, Federal Reserve)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on Jobs: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly CEPR followed its July 2012 paper, “Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone” ...

33. Haiti Using Funds from PetroCaribe to Finance Reconstruction
(Matching tags: reconstruction, haitian government, venezuela, petrocaribe)

"The cooperation with Venezuela is the most important in Haiti right now in terms of impact, direct impact," President Martelly told the Associated Press in December. The most important channel for this ...

34. Venezuela Leads World in Aid to Haiti
(Matching tags: shelter, aid, venezuela, debt relief, pledges)

The Miami Herald reports on the role of Venezuela in the relief and reconstruction of Haiti. The article notes that Venezuela was "the first nation to respond", "became the first country to forgive Haiti's ...