Hugo Chavez News

LA VICTORIA, Venezuela - Soraida Gil says she can live without coffee but draws the line at toilet paper.

Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas.

Just as the American international security establishment - DoD, CIA, State - maintains continuing assessments of nations considered potential or actual adversaries, these countries do the same in respect to the United States.

Revelations that Costa Rica's president used the jet of a Colombian with alleged links to drugs trafficking have led to three high-profile resignations.

Venezuelans have been hit by a chronic toilet paper shortage leading to empty supermarket shelves and long queues to snap up the remaining rolls.

First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities - toilet paper.

Spanish actor Willy Toledo has announced he will leave Spain and its "savage capitalism" to seek refuge in the utopian paradise that is the Castro regime's Cuba.

Costa Rica's President Laura Chinchilla came under pressure on Tuesday after the government admitted she had used a private jet owned by a foreign oil company, prompting an investigation by the attorney general's office.

A woman walks out with a bag in her hands. "There is milk!" she says enthusiastically, much to the delight of the other customers.

There was a pretty remarkable moment last week at the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas.

Many Americans reasonably detect, and lament, a decline of civility in our political process.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has dismissed accusations that his country's ties with Iran are fostering anti-Semitism in Latin America, explaining that Caracas is critical of Israel's policies, not the Jewish people.

Venezuelan opposition TV channel Globovision has been sold and will change its editorial line, according to a statement published on its website.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday, May 13, sent some 3,000 troops into the streets of the capital of Caracas to crack down on rampant crime, Reuters reported.

PARIS: Carlos the Jackal, the Marxist militant once ranked among the world's most wanted criminals, launched an appeal Monday against a life sentence for bomb attacks that killed 11 people three decades ago.

Empresas Polar chief executive Lorenzo Mendoza gives a news conference at his office in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, May 13, 2013.

Maybe it was because of the great date I went on last night, but I had a dream about you where I met you again.

At the Catalyst Conference in Dallas, Texas, controversial pastor Mark Driscoll ignited the Twittersphere yet again when he made it known that he isn't concerned with caring for creation.

Manfred Gerstenfeld interviews Sammy Eppel, member of the governing body of Venezuelan Jews, on the continuing hostile attitude towards Jews in Venezuela.

PARIS: Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the convicted killer known to the world as Carlos the Jackal, returns to court on Monday in a bid to overturn his conviction for masterminding a deadly series of bombings on French soil.