President Hugo Chavez’s allies launched their campaigns Wednesday for crucial congressional elections that come just as recession, crime and inflation have pushed the socialist leader’s popularity to a seven-year low. A survey by the...

Francisco Chavez Abarca was arrested by Venezuelan authorities last Thursday when he arrived at Caracas’ international airport. Venezuelan officials said Chavez Abarca was a member of an anti-communist group trained and led by Cuban exile and...

Venezuela’s government plans to nationalize 11 oil drilling rigs owned by Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Helmerich & Payne in the latest takeover by the government of Hugo Chavez in a string of nationalizations in all sectors of the beleaguered economy as...

Attorney General Luisa Ortega said station chief Guillermo Zuloaga was wanted for “usury” after he was accused of illegally storing new vehicles for speculative purposes in 2009, charges he says are politically motivated. The network,...

Colombian authorities on Sunday expelled a Venezuelan police officer who was found in a border town after entering the country illegally, the DAS security agency said in a communique. “Since October of last year, with this one, there have been six...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez inaugurated Saturday the state-run Bicentennial Hypermarket in stores that he expropriated from the Exito chain, with French and Colombian capital, with the promise that products will be sold at “fair prices” without...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is accusing Colombia and the United States of plotting to set up a fake rebel camp on Venezuelan soil to discredit his government. Chavez accused Colombia of preparing what he called a “false positive”...

President Hugo Chavez launched a federal police force on Sunday that he hopes will change the overwhelmingly negative image most Venezuelans have of their public security forces while reducing crime in one of Latin America’s most violent...

The referendum needed for a second re-election of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is on the verge of collapse after the country’s Electoral Council ruled that the signatures collected to force the referendum are invalid. According to the...

He was the man who saved Hugo Chávez when all seemed lost. A coup had ousted Venezuela’s president and buried, it seemed, his leftist experiment. General Raúl Baduel, however, stayed loyal and tilted the army Chávez’s way during...