VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports:President Chavez says he welcomes new US President, Barack Obama but warns the Venezuelan people not to harbor any illusions because what Venezuela is dealing with, he maintains, is the North American empire. The President made the declaration during a campaign act in Barcelona (Anzoategui). Of one thing Chavez is glad and that is the exit of the Bush administration, which, he contends, filled the world with terror and violence ... "Goodbye, Mister Bush!" Chavez adds that he hopes the arrival of a new President will bring about a real change in relations between the US and third world countries with respect for their sovereignty and freedoms. Up till now the performance of Obama as President-elect has failed to impress President Chavez, who has accused Obama of meddling in Venezuela's electoral campaign.
Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro has announced that Venezuela will continue to send humanitarian aid to Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and that Venezuela is closely following peace talks. Minister Maduro made the statement at the Simon Bolivar international airport in Maiquetia just before another military plane took off for Gaza with aid. Venezuela is calling for the return of Palestinian land to its people and their right to a free and peaceful state.
Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez has reacted positively to some of the statements made by US President Barack Obama last night. Ending a visit to Cuba, Fernandez insists that the US must start respecting the peoples of South America and that the great challenge for Argentina and Cuba and other emerging nations and economies is to sustain activity and growth and create a new trade model. Fernandez has welcomed Obama's critique of the market that "sometimes acts with irresponsibility and must be monitored and controlled." The Argentinian President is flying to Venezuela for an official visit of two days to amplify the agenda of cooperation between Caracas and Buenos Aires.
President Chavez has announced that he will be writing a column in several domestic newspapers from tomorrow, Thursday, January 22. The column will be titled, "Las Lines de Chavez" (Chavez' Line Drives) and the President says it is one way he can contribute to the current battle of ideas. The column will appear on Tuesday, Thursday and Sundays and will also be available on the Internet. The first piece will revolve around Chavez as a baseball player. Playing on the word term "line," which is used in baseball, Chavez recalls that the strongest line drives he made as a baseball player were always towards right-field but now he's not hitting lines with a bat but with his mind and the lines are not just going to right-field.
Family members and workers at the Pepsi Cola plant in Aragua are seriously questioning charges leveled by the Attorney General's Office against Julio Cesar Arguinzonez for allegedly murdering three trade union leaders, Richard Gallardo, Luis Hernandez and Carlos Requena on November 27. Two of the leaders were also members of the United Socialist Party of the Left and candidates to regional elections on November 23. Trade union leaders at Pepsi-Cola allege that the accused was on shift work when the crime occurred and have CCTV evidence confirming his presence. National Union of Workers (UNT) representatives complain that the authorities have not investigated trade union mafias and company owners whom they claim are the natural suspects of being behind the crime. The company in question is a milk company owned by Colombian citizens, which the deceased had visited prior to their assassination. According to Interior & Justice (MIJ) Minister, Tarek El Aissami, the motive of the crime centers around a struggle to control the Pepsi-Cola trade union.
Interior & Justice (MIJ) Minister Tarek El Aissami has confirmed the arrest of four opposition students who took part in a march in Caracas yesterday protesting against the constitutional amendment proposal. The Minister says a truck with more than 100 Molotov cocktails, sacks of stones and a canister of gasoline was seized. According to the Minister, the owner of the truck had been contracted by students organizing a march. The four have been arrested, the Minister states, for attacking the police during skirmishes around Plaza Brion. The march to the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) building had not been authorized.
Speaking in Cabimas (Zulia), President Chavez has told members of the social missions front working for the approval of the constitutional amendment proposal that he will not allow opposition students to set fire to the streets of Caracas. The President calls on the Bolivarian student movement not to allow the streets to be taken over by "students of the bourgeoisie" and to undertake marches in support of the amendment. The President urges his people to be prepared for difficult days because what the country is seeing, he declares, is an attempt at destabilization in the wake of the "Puerto Rico Pact" signed by all the opposition. The President repeats the government will not allow street disturbances and much less the torching of Venezuela.
Patrick J. O'Donoghue
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