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Hugo Chávez’s government seized or nationalized foreign oil assets in multiple waves, most prominently in 2007 when it reasserted state control over Orinoco heavy‑oil projects operated by major intern...
Hungary has recently tightened animal‑protection law: the National Assembly unanimously approved a bill to impose harsher penalties for animal abuse in June 2025 . Older reporting and activist materia...
China and Russia have kept Venezuela’s crude flowing and its joint ventures afloat through investment, technical support, and contracts that sidestep Western firms — stabilising PDVSA output near ~1 m...
If martial law is declared in the United States, the president does not automatically lose office; U.S. law does not provide a clear mechanism by which a presidential declaration of martial law itself...
Venezuela’s government has publicly denounced U.S. maritime strikes as attacks on civilians and is moving to investigate them: the National Assembly announced a special commission to probe strikes on ...
The “political spectrum” is a model for classifying political positions along one or more axes — most commonly a left–right economic axis — with roots in seating at the French National Assembly during...
The Paris Commune (March–May 1871) was a short-lived, radical municipal government that seized Paris after the Franco‑Prussian defeat and the National Government’s retreat to Versailles; it lasted abo...
Venezuela’s written legal mechanism for replacing a detained president is anchored in Article 233 of the 1999 Constitution: the vice president is first in line to assume the executive in the event of ...
Nicolás Maduro’s 2019 and 2024 contested victories were enabled by a combination of pre‑emptive legal engineering—court interventions, party takeovers and legislature packing—and a series of electoral...
Venezuelan constitutional texts establish broad rules for public office and nationality but do not, in the provided materials, set out a clear, single statutory regime on when legislators may accept m...
The 2007 wave of Venezuelan nationalizations was justified by the Chávez government through a mix of pre-existing organic laws, recently enacted hydrocarbons and expropriation statutes, an enabling-de...
Venezuela’s slide into authoritarian rule and the concentration of power that left the country “under the thumb” is the product of a multi-decade domestic transformation begun under Hugo Chávez and co...
Political financing in Venezuela is governed by a national legal and institutional framework that emphasizes party regulation at the national level while leaving states broad administrative autonomy, ...
Venezuela’s 2018 and 2024 presidential contests were monitored only selectively by international actors, with many mainstream intergovernmental bodies declining participation and the missions that did...
Western governments and many regional actors rejected the legitimacy of Venezuela’s 2018 presidential vote as flawed and illegitimate, actions that set the stage for a diplomatic split in 2019 when th...
If the vicepresident does not assume the presidency, Venezuelan constitutional text and recent practice point next to the president of the National Assembly as the immediate institutional successor , ...
Between 1999 and 2007 Hugo Chávez systematically rewrote the rules governing foreign participation in Venezuela’s oil sector, moving the country from the 1990s’ more open “apertura” toward a model req...
Project 06 — Vietnam’s government program to build a national population database, electronic identification (e-ID) and authentication system from 2022–2025 — moved from planning and pilot phases into...
Recent reporting and documents show an active Russia–Venezuela strategic partnership through 2025 that links energy cooperation, long-term oil joint-venture extensions and resumed security ties — but ...
On November 26, 2025, large protests in central Sofia were organized primarily by the opposition coalition We Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria (often shortened in reporting to Continue the Ch...