US knew of 2002 plot on Chavez, papers show
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WASHINGTON -- The US government knew of an imminent plot to oust Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chavez, in the weeks before a 2002 military coup that briefly unseated him, newly released CIA documents show, despite White House claims to the contrary a week after the putsch.
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By Patrick Markey CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's President HugoChavez pressed for a new anti-terrorism proposal on Saturdayafter a car bomb killed a top state prosecutor investigatingopponents accused of backing a 2002 coup against him.
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Venezuela suggested Friday that exiles living in Florida may have masterminded the assassination of a prosecutor investigating a short-lived coup against leftist President Hugo ChÃ¡vez
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Evidence of more US abuse in Iraq has been revealed after the US military was forced to release it by the courts. According to newly released document, dated back to June 16, US marines carried out a mock
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The Caribbean and Latin American links of people charged in an alleged plot to blow up New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport underscore the spread of global extremism, analysts said on Sunday.
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Venezuelan military officers stand guard near the burned wreck of a car destroyed by two blasts, which authorities believe killed a key prosecutor investigating opponents of President Hugo Chavez, in Caracas Nov. 19, 2004.
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A man who tried to fund an Argentine campaign was offered a bribe to hide Venezuelan sources, a US court hears.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov. 21 -- Mexican authorities have quietly released an 859-page report that describes how three Mexican governments killed, tortured and disappeared dissidents and political opponents from the late 1960s until 1982.
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VENEZUELA CARACAS -- President Hugo Chavez vowed yesterday that Venezuela's intelligence services would identify the assassins of a state attorney who intended to prosecute backers of Venezuela's 2002 coup. Danilo Anderson, known to many Venezuelans as the &quot;super prosecutor,&quot; was killed Thursday night by two explosions that ripped through his vehicle in the capital. The assassination renewed the specter of ...
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The US and UK knew of the possibility of a coup against the government of Equatorial Guinea, the Sunday Times reported, citing unidentified officials at the Pentagon and UK government.
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A declassified document shows J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to imprison 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.
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The U.S. government is spending millions of dollars in the name of democracy in Venezuela &#151; bankrolling human rights seminars, training emerging leaders, advising political parties and giving to charities. But the money is raising deep suspicions among supporters of President Hugo Chavez, in part because the U.S. has refused to name many of the groups it's supporting.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused opposition presidential candidates of taking orders and receiving secret funding from the U.S. government during campaigning ahead of this year's elections.
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President Hugo Chavez on Friday accused Colombia and the United States of plotting a military "aggression" against Venezuela.
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Venezuela is buying helicopters, boats and military transport planes in defense deals worth about &#36;2.7 billion, modernizing its military as tensions grow between leftist President Hugo Chavez and the United States.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's President Hugo  Chavez pressed for a new anti-terrorism proposal on Saturday  after a car bomb killed a top state prosecutor investigating  opponents accused of backing a 2002 coup against him.
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A Venezuelan prosecutor probing a 2002 coup against President Hugo Chavez was killed by a car bomb that the government blamed on Friday on radical opponents it said were training in the United States.