Hugo Chavez News

Senate Democrats are calling on Secretary of State John F. Kerry to take a more careful approach toward Honduras to ensure that police and military in the Central American nation are not committing human rights abuses with U.S. aid.

In Venezuela, savvy shoppers are hunting down scarce supplies of toilet paper with a smartphone app.

Anew law in Venezuela bans the sale of guns, requires universal gun registration and threatens to send violators to prison for 20 years.

When I heard about President Barack Obama's plans for a $100 million trip to Africa with his family and entourage, I was surprised that Zimbabwe is not on the itinerary.

During 2012, hot drinks categories saw a positive performance in both volume and constant value terms.

The 2011 release of their agitative debut album "Nuestra" brought Venezuelan indie rock band La Vida Boheme Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations and a trip to the finals of MTV Iggy's Best New Band in the World finals in Times Square.

Kimberly-Clark Corp is planning a 234 million bolivar investment to expand operations in Venezuela, the state news agency said, in a move that should help ease an embarrassing national shortage of toilet paper.

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.