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President Hugo Chavez has been filling top posts in Venezuela's armed forces with hardline political loyalists, raising concerns among critics that the military leaders might not accept the results of this year's election if it goes against him.
President Hugo Chavez's government is likely to spend heavily this year to rev up the economy during his re-election bid, and that could worsen one of Venezuela's biggest problems: 27-percent annual inflation that is already close to the highest in the world.
A former baseball executive is plotting strategy for Venezuela's political opposition, and he's on a winning streak.
Humberto Prado has seen plenty of danger. Once an inmate in some of South America's most feared lockups, he later was pardoned and became a prison director himself, then spent years campaigning for reforms in Venezuela's notorious prisons.
Over months, Venezuelan TV soap opera writer Leonardo Padron built a Twitter following of about 250,000 people by posting more than a dozen messages a day, many of them skewering President Hugo Chavez.
A young man dies of gunshot wounds, and enraged friends and relatives react by shooting up the hospital. A medical student leaving another hospital at the end of her shift is shot to death by a robber. Doctors working late take to sleeping in their workplace rather than risk being mugged.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he expects to undergo a fourth phase of chemotherapy to prevent cancer from reappearing and that it should be the last round.
President Hugo Chavez announced Wednesday he is nationalizing Venezuela's gold mining industry and intends to bring home $11 billion in gold reserves currently held in U.S. and European banks.
Gripping a microphone, the vice president had a moment to shine as he stood in for President Hugo Chavez and welcomed hundreds of athletes to a competition hosted by Venezuela's government.
President Hugo Chavez said Friday that Venezuela's oil production quota within OPEC should increase now that its proven crude reserves have grown.
Even before President Hugo Chavez announced he was fighting cancer, Venezuela was one of Latin America's most troubled nations.
Dancers in brightly colored devil masks whirled around and shook their hips to the heavy beat of African drums Thursday, marking the beginning of Venezuela's exuberant Corpus Christi celebration.
Venezuelans are almost evenly split about President Hugo Chavez's performance in office, according to a poll released Monday.
Unjustified killings by police officers are escalating and occurring across Venezuela, a human rights group charged Thursday.
Venezuela's economy expanded 4.5 percent for the first quarter, confirming a growth trend after nearly two years of recession, officials said Tuesday.
Venezuela is imposing a windfall profits tax on royalties from oil projects when crude prices are above $40 a barrel, seeking to squeeze as much as $16 billion mostly out of foreign oil companies, the government said Tuesday.
Three months after the death of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, his embalmed body is still in limbo — kept in cold storage in a Miami mortuary while his relatives battle in court over where he should be buried.
University protesters in Venezuela have ended a month-long hunger strike, saying President Hugo Chavez's government has met their demands.
New rules authorizing Venezuela's military to distribute weapons to pro-government militias took effect Tuesday, raising concern among critics who say the armed groups could be used by President Hugo Chavez to cement his hold on power.
Venezuelans are increasingly resorting to hunger strikes as a form of protest or a way to press grievances against President Hugo Chavez's government, the representative of a human rights group said Thursday.
Venezuela has officially emerged from recession, but business leaders and independent analysts said Wednesday that modest fourth-quarter growth doesn't mean the economy will continue to expand.
Workers at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Venezuela have ended a strike that lasted nearly a month and drastically cut back production of soft drinks in the country, the company said Thursday.
The Venezuelan government on Monday launched a new public securities exchange that is to be a venue for selling both government and corporate bonds.
By the time the White House designated him an international drug kingpin in May 2009, Walid Makled had risen comet-like from petty smuggler to port mogul and airline owner through the good graces of Venezuelan power brokers.
Police and soldiers fired water cannons and plastic bullets Thursday as thousands of students protested against a law passed by Venezuela's congress that increases the government's powers over the country's universities.
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