Caracas, Venezuela News

Venezuela approved the "forced acquisition" of the shares and property of Cemex SAB's local unit, a day after the national guard, oil workers and Energy and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez seized the facilities.

TWO passenger buses collided today in western Venezuela, killing 10 people and injuring 17, official media reported.

CARACAS: President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Russian President Dimitri Medvedev wants to send a Russian naval fleet to visit Venezuela.

CARACAS, Venezuela : Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he considers Georgia's leader a "puppet" of Washington and is backing Russia in its conflict with the former Soviet republic.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., climbs stairs to board a plane in Chicago on Saturday, Aug.

Venezuelan economists say gains in bank lending slowed sharply in the first seven months of 2008.

Telesur is again mired in controversy over its alleged links to Colombia's leftist FARC guerrillas.

A leading anti-Semitism watchdog group said Thursday that a meeting between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Jewish leaders is a positive step but that the government must take concrete action to improve ...

TV Online Rabies from bats suspected in Venezuela deaths By IAN JAMES CARACAS, Venezuela - At least 38 Warao Indians have died in remote villages in Venezuela, and medical experts suspect an outbreak of rabies ...

Venezuela relaxed price controls on 15 foods ranging from bread to beef and removed controls from other products Tuesday in a bid to ease sporadic shortages in supermarkets.

Venezuela has found the first fossils of an extinct scimitar cat -- of the saber-toothed cat genus -- in South America, during oil prospecting activities southeast of Caracas, paleontologists announced.

Venezuela has closed registration for candidates running in November's state and local elections - leaving out 272 officials barred from running.

AN earthquake measuring 5.6 on Richter scale struck eastern Venezuela early yesterday morning.

Posted by Harry Palms on Saturday August 9, 2008 at 1:52 pm MDT [ Send to a friend ] EXCERPT: CARACAS, Venezuela -- At least 38 Warao Indians have died in remote villages in Venezuela, and medical experts ...

About 3,000 opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez marched through the capital on Saturday to protest a package of laws that expand his power and accelerate his push toward socialism.

Shouting chants and waving balloons reading 'play fair,' they complained that some of the laws resemble constitutional reforms sought by Chavez that voters rejected at the polls in December.

'We said no,' university student Mariangel Rodriguez said. Chavez 'says he's a democrat. I don't know what his concept of democracy is, but to me, this is not democracy.'

CARACAS: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has enacted an aggressive package of 26 laws increasing the state's power over the economy ahead of key regional elections.

Bitter infighting between political parties struggling to resolve differences and official measures to ban opposition candidates on corruption charges are threatening to overshadow regional elections in ...

CARACAS, Venezuela : A mystery disease has killed dozens of Warao Indians in recent months in a remote area of northeastern Venezuela, according to indigenous leaders and researchers from the University of ...

Aug 6 - A popular Venezuelan politician hoping to run for office in Caracas is banned, stoking democracy concerns.

Riot police used tear gas Wednesday to block hundreds of Venezuelans protesting the latest moves by President Hugo Chavez to concentrate his power.