Venezuela Marks Anniversary of Democracy
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Supporters of President Hugo Chavez marched through Caracas on Sunday, demanding respect for Venezuela's sovereignty following U.S. criticism and Colombia's acknowledgment that it paid a bounty to capture a rebel on Venezuelan soil.
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Chile marks the anniversary of the 1973 military coup, as protests erupt in the capital, Santiago.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez has survived a referendum to recall him, according to  results released by electoral authorities on Monday with 94  percent of the vote counted.
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Spain is marking the third anniversary of the Madrid terror bombings that killed 191 people on Sunday with the unveiling of a towering glass monument bearing messages of condolence left written in the days after the attacks.
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WHILE India was celebrating its Independence Day, another important event was taking place on the other side of the world, in Venezuela.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez, a populist who survived a coup two years ago, appeared  on Monday to have weathered the latest challenge to what he  calls his revolution to help the poor as he declared victory in  a historic recall referendum.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- JesÃÂºs Vivas drives a 26-year-old clunker with rusted fenders, ripped upholstery and a tattered carpet. With a wheeze, a plume of smoke and a walrus-like roar, the wreck he calls a taxi accelerates down congested streets. About the only thing that works well is a new radio,...
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez survived a referendum to oust him, according to results Monday, prompting his backers to set off fireworks and celebrate in the capital, while Venezuela's opposition swiftly claimed fraud.    The first-ever recall vote for a president in Venezuela's history was aimed at putting a lid on years of violent political unrest and a bloody coup, and it came after a lengthy and complicated petitioning process...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and throngs of his supporters jammed avenues in downtown Caracas on Friday to celebrate the president&#39;s defeat of an August 15 recall referendum.
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Filled with nostalgia and perhaps a little bitterness, a few thousand people gathered Wednesday on the capital's central square to mark the second anniversary of the Orange Revolution, an event that many in ...Comment
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Supporters of President Hugo Chavez marched through Caracas on Sunday, demanding respect for Venezuela's sovereignty following U.S. criticism and Colombia's acknowledgment that it paid a bounty to capture a rebel on Venezuelan soil.
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Hugo Chávez, the strong-arm president of the oil power, Venezuela, has shown once again that he&#39;s a survivor. He beat back an attempted coup in 2002, and on Sunday handily won a hotly contested referendum that sought to remove him from office.
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Venezuela's ruling party took the first step Monday toward creating a single pro-government party, a move opponents criticized as a push to consolidate more power in the hands of President Hugo Chavez after his landslide re-election.
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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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Hugo Chavez is due to be declared the winner of Venezuela's presidential poll in a ceremony.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez on Sunday promised hundreds of thousands of supporters he would win a resounding victory in his December 3 reelection bid he describes as a challenge to Washington.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez delivers a speech to supporters during a meeting at the Caracas square 27 August 2004 in Caracas.