Sarah Wagner

U.S. journalist living in Venezuela

89 articles

Vuelvan Caras: Venezuela’s Mission for Building Socialism of the 21st Century

by Sarah Wagner

Caracas (Venezuela) | 13 July 2005

During the war for independence from Spain, Venezuelans called upon their countrymen to vuelvan caras - about face - meaning to turn around and directly face the enemy. The enemy today in Venezuela is not Spain, but rather unemployment, and with the mission Vuelvan Caras, the Bolivarian (...)

Venezuelan University Students’ Murders Lead to Restructuring of Police Force

by Sarah Wagner

Caracas (Venezuela) | 11 July 2005

Several divisions of the Venezuelan Military Intelligence Direction (DIM) and national forensic police (CICPC) will be restructured as a result of the recent murders of three university students in Macarao, committed by members of the police and the tampering of evidence in the case, announced (...)

Venezuela’s Attorney General: Prosecutor’s Assassination

Intended to Destabilize Chávez Government

by Sarah Wagner

Caracas (Venezuela) | 1 July 2005

Isaías Rodríguez
According to statements made by Venezuela’s Attorney General Isaías Rodríguez, during a press conference yesterday, the assassination of state prosecutor Danilo Anderson last November was only the tip of the iceberg of a series of terrorist assassination plots that (...)

Summit of Caribbean Nations Launch Petrocaribe in Venezuela

by Sarah Wagner

Caracas (Venezuela) | 30 June 2005

Leaders of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in Puerto La Cruz, "to build a regional oil alliance and distribute fuel more cheaply in the Caribbean,” through an oil cooperation project called Petrocaribe.
Modeled after its South American sister (...)

Venezuela to Prove It Has World’s Largest Oil Reserves

by Sarah Wagner , Gregory Wilpert

Caracas (Venezuela) | 29 June 2005

PdVSA, Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, is preparing to launch a study that will prove that the country’s oil reserves, currently believed to be the fifth largest in the world, actually surpass those of Saudi Arabia, the country which is widely believed to have the largest oil reserves in (...)

Mercal

Reducing Poverty and Creating National Food Sovereignty in Venezuela

by Sarah Wagner

Caracas (Venezuela) | 28 June 2005

"How can a country consider itself to be a democracy that respects human rights when 80 percent of the population is subjected to the daily outrage of poverty and its terrible consequences? What type of democracy can be built upon illiteracy and the ignorance it breeds, malnutrition, (...)

Venezuela’s Chavez Announces Second Stage of Food Distribution Network

by Sarah Wagner

Caracas (Venezuela) | 28 June 2005

Sunday, during his weekly television program Aló Presidente, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez announced the second stage of the Mission Mercal with the approval of an addition $295 million.
This money is designated towards expanding the network to provide 60 percent of the population, or (...)

16th Worldwide Festival of Youth and Students to be Held in Venezuela

by Sarah Wagner

Caracas (Venezuela) | 23 June 2005

“For Peace and Solidarity We Fight against Imperialism and War” is the theme of the 16th Worldwide Festival of Youth and Students to be held in Caracas, Venezuela from August 7 to 15.
David Velásquez from Venezuela and Miguel Madeira from Portugal, both of the Worldwide Federation of (...)

Venezuela’s Chavez Prioritizes Cooperation over Competition at Mercosur Summit

by Sarah Wagner

Caracas (Venezuela) | 22 June 2005

Before a crowd of over four hundred people gathered together for the 28th Mercosur Summit in Asunción, Paraguay, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez laid out a framework for the construction of a new model for Mercosur, which is removed from imperialist influence and based on social justice (...)

Venezuela’s Intelligence Service To Be Restructured

by Sarah Wagner , Gregory Wilpert

Caracas (Venezuela) | 20 June 2005

President Hugo Chávez ordered the reorganization of Venezuela’s national secret police, the DISIP. The DISIP (Directorate of Intelligence and Prevention Services) is a special police and intelligence force that Venezuelans have feared for decades because of its secretive nature and because it (...)

Venezuela’s President Says Assassination Plot Means Fewer Public Appearances

by Sarah Wagner

Caracas (Venezuela) | 17 June 2005

Last night (june 14th) Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez confirmed declarations recently made by other government officials that warn of an assassination attempt on his life and clarified that this is a foreign conspiracy in which the Venezuelan military has no part.
Upon arriving to a (...)

U.S. General Says Venezuela is a Danger for the Hemisphere

by Sarah Wagner

Caracas (Venezuela) | 15 June 2005

John Craddock
In an interview with the Miami daily El Nuevo Herald, General John Craddock, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, warned of the malice of “radical populism” and “transnational threats” in Latin America and singled out Venezuela’s influence among its neighbors as (...)

Venezuela’s Independence Day Parade Suspended due to Assassination Concerns

by Sarah Wagner

Caracas (Venezuela) | 15 June 2005

Jorge Luis García Carneiro
Venezuela’s Minister of Defense General Jorge Luis García Carneiro announced last Saturday that the traditional Army Day parade held annually on June 24th has been suspended because of a possible assassination attempt on the life of Venezuelan President Hugo (...)

Chavez Announces Major New Health Care Project for Venezuela

by Sarah Wagner

Caracas (Venezuela) | 14 June 2005

During his weekly television and radio program, Aló Presidente, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez inaugurated the first diagnostic center in the Venezuelan state of Monagas and honored the second phase of the community health care program Mission Barrio Adentro: Barrio Adentro II. Chávez also (...)

Venezuelan Opposition Group Sumate Takes Offensive

Following Meeting with Bush

by Sarah Wagner

Caracas (Venezuela) | 13 June 2005

María Corina Machado
Reinvigorated by her high profile meetings with U.S. President George W. Bush and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rica, Súmate (Join Up) Director María Corina Machado held a press conference yesterday, where she accused the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (...)

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