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Standard & Poor's downgraded Venezuela's sovereign foreign currency credit rating by one notch on Monday, citing political turmoil as an impediment to enacting meaningful reforms in order to stop a slide in economic activity.

Venezuela's Congress will discuss legislation this week that would prohibit bottle feeding of infants to try to encourage breast feeding and reduce the use of baby formula, said a lawmaker of the ruling Socialist Party.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has asked Pope Francis to canonize a doctor who tended to the poor in Caracas and is considered a saint already by many Venezuelans.

We have written before about Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, who seems determined to seize the mantle of Latin American Lefty Authoritarian of the Decade from Hugo Chavez's dead body.

Pope Francis should pressure President Nicolas Maduro to focus on the promotion of democracy and peaceful coexistence to help ease tensions sparked by the South American country's political and economic crisis, the Catholic Church's top representative in Venezuela said Sunday.

On the margins of a multilateral summit in Guatemala last week, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jose Jaua, marking the Obama administrationA s latest attempt to reset relations with the South American nation.

One of the greatest ironies of the late strongman Hugo Chavez's rule was that even as he attempted to personify Venezuelan nationalism, he was quietly outsourcing more and more of the country's sovereignty to the Castro brothers in Cuba.

The initial transition to the government of Nicholas Maduro has been relatively smooth, but we still believe there are uncertainties arising from the loss of Chavez as a figurehead for the movement.

Of all Hugo Chavez's grandiose dreams, perhaps none was quite as lofty as his "Bolivarian" vision of unifying Latin America.

Unfortunately, Jonah , it appears that St. Peter may share Billy Collins's views.

Venezuelan authorities on Friday freed a judge arrested in 2009 after then-President Hugo Chavez objected to one of her rulings, and who became a cause celebre for the opposition and international human rights groups.

Venezuela's Congress will discuss legislation next week that would prohibit bottle feeding of infants to try to encourage breast feeding and reduce the use of baby formula, said a lawmaker of the ruling Socialist Party.

Caracas , Jun 14 - The 10th World Festival of Poetry, to be held from June 17th to June 22nd in Venezuela, will be attended by 28 world poets from 26 countries, said the organizers today.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were not only a pivotal moment for the United States; they also marked an important turning point for Latin America.

The video showed him sitting in a darkened theater, weeping over archival footage announcing founding leader Ruhollah Khomeini's 1989 death.

On the margins of a multilateral summit in Guatemala last week, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jose Jaua, marking the Obama administration's latest attempt to reset relations with the South American nation.

Yesterday, CBS News published documents that showed the State Department had quashed or obstructed Inspector General investigations into serious wrongdoing by high-ranking officials, including one Ambassador who ditched his security team to importune I guess this makes it bipartisan, no? The Democratic chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and ... (more)

Love that truck: Chip Legett was caught in traffic and unable to escape the Oklahoma tornado, and he, his F-150 pickup and his three passengers were tossed some 20 feet in the air, rolled four times before they crash-landed about 100 yards away in a wheat field.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned them there was a limit to his patience. Apparently, for the Turkish prime minister, that was 12 days.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange makes a speech from the balcony of Ecuador's Embassy, in central London, Dec. 2012.