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	<title>Trends Updates &#187; Venezuela</title>
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		<title>Twitter is growing fast!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NARUTO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a survey recently released by comScore, only in June Twitter&#8216;s website was accessed by more than 93 million users, an increase of 109% compared to last year. With this, the microblogging service earns the status of a social networking more accessible worldwide. &#8220;Today, almost three among four global Internet users accessing social networking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo Chavez versus Catholic Church</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/hugo-chavez-versus-catholic-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NARUTO</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cardinal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catholic church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jorge Urosa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The degraded relationship between the Venezuelan government and the Catholic Church is going through its worst time. In his last televised speech Sunday at the &#8220;Hello President,&#8221; Chavez accused the Cardinal-Archbishop of Caracas, Jorge Urosa from being behind a coup against his government. &#8220;I could even go to court, because the Cardinal is accusing me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Criticized by the West for its human rights abuses, Sri Lanka turns to the East</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aid to Sri Lanka from the East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[criticism against Sri Lanka by the West]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDPs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internally displaced persons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LTTE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka refugee camps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamil refugees]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations recently announced that internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka, housed in refugee camps since the time they fled their homes during the final and fatal offensive against the LTTE, can now go back to their homes. The questions are whether they still have homes to go back to and how safe is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World’s Big Thinkers Reflect and Predict</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/world%e2%80%99s-big-thinkers-reflect-and-predict/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/world%e2%80%99s-big-thinkers-reflect-and-predict/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China as next global powerhouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dangerous Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Petraeus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francis Fukuyama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hu Jintao]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keeping an eye on Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclearized Pakistan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=30015</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[100 luminaries were asked, including the likes of Bill Clinton, Francis Fukuyama, and David Petraeus, about their opinions on past year events, as well as their predictions for the foreseeable future. Here are some of the 2009 reflections and 2010 predictions of big thinkers: The most significant notes are that China is ascendant, Pakistan is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latin America’s Oil: Nationalism or Protectionism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chevron oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental damage in Lago Agrio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America as energy partner of choice for the US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America as US oil supplier]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Petrobras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petroecuador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petróleos de Venezuela (PdVSA)]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=24926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Latin America is rich in oil. It has 132 billion barrels of ‘proven’ reserves. The US sources much of its oil supplies from the region. ‘Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, and Ecuador have significant reserves and strong state involvement in the exploration and production of oil through their nationalized companies Petróleos de Venezuela (PdVSA), Petrobras, Pemex, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo Chavez’s ‘Bolivarian Rule of Lawlessness’</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/hugo-chavez%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98bolivarian-rule-of-lawlessness%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bolivarian revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bolivarian Rule of Lawlessness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chavez regime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chavez the despot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chavez the dictator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chavista Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[erosion of judicial autonomy under Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[erosion of the judicial system in Venezuela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[erosion of the rule of law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judicial abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prof. Bruce Bagley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[punish and persecute Chavez political opponents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Congressman Connie Mack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[violations of human rights and international law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=22695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a strategic ‘methodology by which the dictatorial Chavez regime has gradually turned the courts into a powerful political instrument to punish opponents, all under the guise of illegality.’ This is Chavista Justice. It has showcased the ‘erosion of judicial autonomy under Hugo Chavez who has reigned over Venezuela for the past ten years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zelaya, Chavez, and the FARC: not-so-invisible connection</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/zelaya-chavez-and-the-farc-not-so-invisible-connection/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/zelaya-chavez-and-the-farc-not-so-invisible-connection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=21610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Evidence has surfaced showing the connection between the supporters of deposed President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya and the largest South American supplier of illegal drugs to North America: the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). This is the missing link that directly explains why Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been openly working on Zelaya being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Years of Hugo Chavez: Revolutionary Bravado, Economic Bumbling, and Ostentatious Boligarchs</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/ten-years-of-hugo-chavez-revolutionary-bravado-economic-bumbling-and-ostentatious-boligarchs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[altering the Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boligarchs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bolivarian revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chavez’s economic bumbling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crackdown on private property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extension of rule]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ousted Manuel Zelaya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political hypocrisy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seizure of foreign oil companies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=20011</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez&#8217;s left-wing socialist swing translates to crackdown on private property such as foreign oil company assets, as well as an ‘undisputed control of the three branches of government and windfall profits from the 2003-08 oil boom.’ As far as his promise to make life in Venezuela economically better, data show that all his bluster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zelaya, Chavez, and Obama: The Winds of Change in Latin America?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/zelaya-chavez-and-obama-the-winds-of-change-in-latin-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitution of Honduras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitutional conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitutionally legal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honduran coup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honduras]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Left]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legitimacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manuel Zelaya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multilateral pressure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[triumph of the Left in Latin America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zelaya exile]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=19928</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[‘The Honduran military ousted and exiled leftist President Zelaya in what was Central America&#8217;s first military coup since the Cold War.’ The move was triggered by Zelaya’s attempt to legalize an extension of his power timetable. In other words, Zelaya wanted to tinker with the country’s Constitution to seek another term of office, a sensitive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Venezuela becoming a narco-state?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/is-venezuela-becoming-a-narco-state/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/is-venezuela-becoming-a-narco-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NARUTO</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cocaine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illegal drug trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A report of the Congress of the USA notices about a strong penetration of the drug traffic in Venezuela, with a very significant increase of the volume of exports of drugs and of the complicity in the high civil and military authorities that collaborate and they protect to guerrilla and the Colombian criminal organizations. Substantially, [...]]]></description>
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