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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned private banks on Sunday that he will consider nationalizing any that refuse to finance agricultural projects promoted by his government.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that his government should pull out of a World Bank-affiliated arbitration body and won't recognize its decisions.

Hugo Chavez may be a fan of baseball, yet the Venezuelan president's economic policies have driven many Major League Baseball academies out of his country.

ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, OCT. 10, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - In this Aug. 10, 2006 file photo, President Hugo Chavez visits oil workers on an oil drill platform in the Orinoco oil belt region in Venezuela's Anzoategui state.

President Hugo Chavez announced the expropriation of two more companies Sunday, the latest among hundreds of enterprises taken over in the socialist leaders campaign to make Venezuela less capitalistic.

Members of Venezuela's largest business chamber said Monday that there is no pre-election conspiracy to undermine President Hugo Chavez by hoarding goods and boosting prices.

President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered the expropriation of a French-owned hypermarket chain that operates close to a dozen stores in Venezuela, accusing it of price speculation following the country's currency devaluation.

President Hugo Chavez announced a currency devaluation Friday for the first time since 2005, setting a two-tiered exchange rate designed to help Venezuela's oil earnings go farther domestically while holding down prices of priority imports like food to counter soaring inflation.

President Hugo Chavez said Friday that Venezuela will base its 2010 budget on expectations of 0.5 percent economic growth and inflation no higher than 22 percent, despite depressed world prices for oil, the nation's biggest export.

President Obama's diversity czar at the Federal Communications Commission has spoken publicly of getting white media executives to "step down" in favor of minorities, prescribed policies to make liberal talk radio more successful, and described Hugo Chavez's rise to power in Venezuela "an incredible revolution." Mark Lloyd's provocative comments - ...