Venezuela identifies 'idle' farms
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The government pushes on with a controversial land reform policy, saying 500 plots of land are idle.
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Chen Chang-wei's farm is the  size of a yard and his crop is accordingly modest.
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Spanish business sectors investing in Venezuela have called on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias to ensure legal and political security for foreign investors.
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Venezuela softened its tone on Tuesday over a threat to stop oil sales to America, with a top official saying a supply cut would be undesirable a day after world oil prices rose due to President Hugo Chavez's warning.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who survived a referendum earlier this month, vows to step up controversial agricultural reforms.
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Venezuela may be making decisions that are confounding oil companies, but the government there says it is merely seeking more income.
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Venezuela's President Chavez says he wants the state to take over oil projects on the Orinoco Belt by May.
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MANICARAGUA, Cuba -- It's early afternoon in this sweltering town, but air conditioners are off, the lights are out, and stereos are silent.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - A mystery over whether a  captured top Colombian Marxist rebel was arrested in Colombia  or kidnapped from neighboring Venezuela is turning into a  political hot potato for leftist Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez.
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By Dennis Pollock, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--A program that had its beginnings in Fresno County may enable people across the country to start small farms of their own.
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KUKENG, Taiwan  - Chen Chang-wei's farm is the size of a yard and his crop is accordingly modest.
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Independent observers confirmed that the random auditing of results from the recall referendum (Sunday August 15) against Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez show there are no indications of fraud as claimed by the opposition.
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Shoppers in oil-rich Venezuela often can't find basic food items in stores but the government of President Hugo Chavez on Sunday turned up a huge stash of milk and chicken in a private health clinic.
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Radical government opponents allegedly planning to assassinate President Hugo Chavez are seeking refuge in a poorly patrolled mountainous region in neighboring Colombia, Venezuela's interior minister said Tuesday.
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CARACAS -- Fresh from victory and emboldened by a decisive mandate, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has the opportunity to extend an olive branch to a seething opposition and a suspicious US ...
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - As the setting sun casts  long shadows over a Caracas cemetery, crime-weary Venezuelans  pray at the tomb of the notorious thief Ismael, believing he  and other dead gangsters can protect them against violent  attacks and robberies.
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Venezuelan officials go into a UK-owned cattle farm that they may expropriate under land reform plans.