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" Venezuela plans to build 2,000 homes for poor families in the Dominican province of Montecristi, on the border with Haiti, Governor Alejandro Toribio said yesterday.

Venezuelan Jewish groups have partnered with a leading developer to restore the oldest existing Jewish cemetery in South America.

BOGOTA: Spying charges, troop movements and mysterious killings along the border between Venezuela and Colombia are stoking a long-running diplomatic dispute that some are calling the "Cold War" of the Andes.

'Former Chavez's allies are moving away from his model and getting closer to Lula's social democracy' Fernando Gerbasi, expert in foreign affairs Politics Director of the Strategic Study Center, Metropolitan University, Fernando Gerbasi was twice ambassador to Colombia and also chief of mission in Brasilia.

Politics A group of 37 Colombians, who were deported from Venezuela for allegedly being members of a paramilitary group that attempted to assassinate President Hugo Chavez, complained of mistreatment.

Caracas, Venezuela, Nov 7, 2009 / 05:50 pm .- Widespread anxiety exists among Catholic leaders in Venezuela who fear that President Hugo Chavez could try to confiscate churches, schools and other church property and try to 'eliminate' the work of the Catholic Church, a source close to the Venezuelan Bishops Conference has told Aid to the Church in ...

The sacralization of history is an ancient practice in Latin America. In the region's Catholic countries, stories of the past, with their heroes and their villains, became instant paraphrases of the Holy Story, complete with martyrologies, holy days, and iconic representations of secular saints.

While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years, for Venezuelans in this hillside slum it's just more of the same.

Severe shortages of electricity and water pose a growing risk to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Bolivarian revolution that is powered largely by the country's petroleum revenues.

Venezuela's Iran Ties Raise Eyebrows Latin American Current Events, News & Affairs - Andres Oppenheimer Hugo Chavez, controversial president of Venezuela M. Ryder Here's an issue that is drawing growing attention in Washington , but is going almost unnoticed in Latin America -- allegations that Venezuela is helping Iran develop nuclear weapons, and ...

Colombia's state-controlled oil company Ecopetrol SA (ECOPETROL.BO) and its partner U.S.-based Chevron Corp. (CVX) reduced shipments of natural gas to Venezuela as demand in Colombia increased...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government is sending 15,000 soldiers to the border with Colombia, saying the military build-up is needed to increase security, combat drug trafficking and root out paramilitary groups.

Venezuela's Central Bank says inflation eased slightly in October. The nation is still battling the highest consumer price gains in Latin America.

President Hugo Chávez’s victory in the 15 February 2009 referendum, permitting indefinite re-election of all elected officials, marked an acceleration of his “Bolivarian revolution” and “socialism of the 21st century”. Chávez has since moved further away from the 1999 constitution, and his government has progressively abandoned core liberal democracy principles guaranteed under the Inter-American Democratic Charter and the American Convention on Human Rights.

Fredys Villanueva, 55, from Barranquilla in Colombia has come to Venezuela to work.

CARACAS, Venezuela: Swine flu has appeared among Venezuela's Yanomami Indians, one of the largest isolated indigenous groups in the Amazon, and a doctor said Wednesday that the virus is suspected in seven deaths, including six infants.

Random drug tests will begin next year for horses in polo matches in the U.S. after the deaths of 21 elite horses in Florida that were injected with an incorrectly mixed supplement shortly before a championship match, the United States Polo Association said Wednesday.

Everyone is on edge in Caracas nowadays, and with good reason. The scent of blood is in the air. Criminal violence grows worse by the day. Independent security experts estimate that over 14,000 persons will be murdered nationally in 2009. Up to 17 million unlicensed handguns and other light weapons are circulating in a country of about 27 million inhabitants...

As this text is written, Lusbi Portillo, professor at Zulia University and environmental activist in solidarity with the indigenous movement is in hiding to protect his life and physical integrity.

VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports: The Major was in charge of the Safe Caracas anti-crime plan for the western sector of the city.