Venezuela News

Omar hit hurricane strength on Tuesday as it headed toward Puerto Rico and the small islands of the northeastern Caribbean, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Remember, as you read this that it is more important to feel pity for the people of Venezuela than it is to feel schadenfreude over the potential political trouble that Hugo Chavez might get into thanks to his ...

Matt Drudge learned long ago that jumping across the pond in the late evening and perusing the British press is a way to get a head start on the news, and in some cases to get news that the American press is ...

CARACAS, Venezuela : A Venezuelan court has issued arrest warrants for eight suspects in the killing of a student leader who helped organize protests against constitutional amendments proposed by President Hugo ...

MEXICO CITY ? Fernando Garcia was going blind in his left eye. After years on a waiting list for an operation at a Mexican hospital, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez came to the rescue.

Well, OK, it is almost a month an a half before November 23, but by early November it will be wise to say that in at least half of the states the dice will have rolled.

Ex-candidate Leopoldo LA3pez greets supporters at an anti-ChA vez rally. LA3pez was making a strong bid for the mayoralty of greater Caracas, until his disqualification.

Violent crime in Latin America kills more people and wreaks more economic havoc than Aids, the head of the Organisation of American States warned this week.

CARACAS, Venezuela The Venezuelan government has ordered nearly all McDonald's restaurants in the country closed for 48 hours.

Toronto has one fewer competitor in its quest to host the 2015 Pan Am Games. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's office says the group representing the city of Caracas, Venezuela, announced Friday that it had ...

One of the most absurd justifications for Obama's long and close relationship with the unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers is that Obama was a little kid when his mentor was setting off bombs at the ...

But I cannot avoid a feeling of tremendous vindication at the meltdown not only of the US economy but of its polity as well.

Election '08: At an education forum in Venezuela, Bill Ayers showed the real issue is not his terrorist past.

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have deciphered the complex relationship between three distinct brain circuits implicated in schizophrenia.

Three years after President Hugo Chávez expelled American missionaries from the Venezuelan Amazon, accusing them of using proselytism of remote tribes as a cover for espionage, resentment is festering here ...

CARACAS, Venezuela : Venezuelan police have arrested three suspects in the killing of a student leader who helped organize protests against a constitutional rewrite proposed by President Hugo Chavez.

" Iranian Industries and Mines Minister Ali-Akbar Mehrabian announced here on Sunday that the country has commissioned hundreds of millions of dollars worth of industrial projects in Venezuela.

President Hugo Chavez has figured out how to use Venezuela's vast oil reserves to increase his regional influence while diminishing U.S. clout: He all but gives it away.

Bureaucrats in oil-rich Venezuela can look forward to fewer expensive SUVs, top-of-the-line mobile telephones and whiskey-fueled parties next year.

Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez said Sunday that Venezuela's 2009 budget 'will have significant restrictions' compared to this year's US$63.9 billion plan as President Hugo Chavez's government keeps a close watch on slumping international oil prices.

'There are expenses that must be eliminated and others that must be reduced,' Rodriguez said in an interview on the privately owned Televen TV network. 'Many expenses, such as expenses on certain types of vehicles, celluars and parties, will be eliminated.'

Guyana's government is dismissing the main opposition party's concern about Venezuela strengthening its military with Russian weaponry.