Venezuela Travel News

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has ended his tour of Latin America with a stop in Venezuela, where he secured a pledge from his Venezuelan counterpart to upgrade ties between Caracas and the Palestinians.

Venezuela on Monday shut down four private banks a day after socialist President Hugo Chavez warned he would not hesitate to nationalize any financial institutions failing to help national development.

Caracas, Nov 28 Venezuela and Palestine strengthened their links with the signing of three bilateral agreements during the official visit of Palestine National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to the South American country this week.

Mr. Chavez hosted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Caracas Friday and promised to open a Venezuelan embassy in the West Bank, where Mr.

Venezuela plans to open an embassy in Palestinian territories and upgrade its ties to ambassadorial level, President Hugo Chavez said on Friday, to support Palestinians in their struggle against Israel.

Guyana and Venezuelan authorities agreed to strengthen cooperation to combat the drug trade during a meeting in the Venezuelan capital earlier this month.

In Key West, they perform it on a shipwreck set complete with palm trees and conch shells.

A talk with Devendra Banhart is like a front-loading washer stuffed with smiles.

The U.S. Embassy in Caracas issued an alert reminding travelers that political demonstrations are frequent in Caracas and other cities, and in the past they have involved tear gas, gunfire and other violence.

The first Boeing 747 scheduled to arrived at Prince George Airport is running behind schedule.

The recent incident involving a Saudi Arabian diplomat provides us with lessons one of which we should not miss.

Caracas, Nov 9 Venezuela ratified on Monday its decision to make the best use of Russian achievements to attain technological independence.

Communism was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century, and one of the greatest in human history.

References to the Guyanese diaspora invariably direct attention to some of the major metropolitan centres - the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom and in the region the Caribbean and Suriname.

President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva of Brazil, affectionately nicknamed Lula, comes as close to being a global rock star as a politician can get.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his visiting Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed 15 cooperation agreements Friday during a trimestral meeting in Venezuela's Anzoategui state.

The Venezuelan government presented on Thursday what officials called 'irrefutable evidence' that neighboring Colombia has dispatched spies to Venezuela, Ecuador and Cuba as part of an ambitious, CIA-financed operation.

Caracas, Oct 30 Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are visiting on Friday a soy field in the eastern Anzoategui state, with Brazilian cultivation technology.

Caracas, Oct 29 The US Central Intelligence Agency is working in Colombia, said Thursday the Secretary of the Interior and Justice, Tareck El Assimi, when he presented proof of the espionage by the Administrative Security Department in Venezuela.