Venezuela insulted, detained U.S. agents: envoy
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U.S. federal agents guarding the American team at South America's top soccer tournament were insulted as "terrorists" and threatened with arrest by Venezuelan officials, the U.S. ambassador said on Wednesday.
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The United States is urging its citizens to think twice about traveling to Venezuela, citing protests and political tensions over the closure of an opposition broadcaster in Caracas.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's foreign minister   was detained at a New York airport on Saturday, prompting an   apology from the U.S. government and compounding already tense   relations between the two countries.
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Nikolas Kozloff apparently believes that Americans have much to fear from Venezuela.
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President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela has caught four people spying for the American government, but a U.S. embassy spokesman said Saturday that he had "no idea what the president is talking about."
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The State Department accused Venezuela on Wednesday of "packing" its Supreme Court to ensure a pro-government majority and said the move calls into question the country's commitment to judicial independence.
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President Hugo Chavez said Friday that Venezuela has caught four people spying for the U.S. government and has turned them over to the Americans.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other regional leaders are expected to criticize Venezuela's recent crackdown on independent media at a regional meeting next week, a U.S. official said on Friday.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged his antagonist U.S. President George W. Bush to help him secure the release of hostages, including three Americans, held by Colombia's FARC rebels.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticized the United States on Sunday for backing Colombia in a dispute over the abduction of a top Colombian rebel and said Washington was trying to divide Latin America.
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High-ranking US officials and lawmakers are pressuring the State Department to take a more punishing tone with Venezuela, at the risk of tossing &quot;red meat&quot; to President Hugo Chavez, who now rules by decree, experts told AFP.
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A top U.S. official said Washington was willing to work with most of Latin America's leftist governments but criticized Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's moves to nationalize industries as a return to the "failed policies of the past."
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela, angered by the  capture of a top Colombian rebel it says was kidnapped from  Caracas in a Colombian police operation, said on Thursday it  had recalled its ambassador from Bogota.
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The State Department expressed "grave concern" Monday about a proposal that would make Venezuelan political activists subject to charges of treason if they receive domestic or foreign funding.
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BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 6 -- U.S. officials say they are evaluating a request from Argentine authorities to extradite a Florida-based businessman whose mysterious suitcase full of cash has driven an awkward wedge between the governments of Venezuela and Argentina.
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President Evo Morales declared a U.S. Embassy security officer to be an "undesirable person" on Monday after reports that the officer asked an American scholar and 30 Peace Corps volunteers to pass along information about Cubans and Venezuelans working in Bolivia.
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The State Department's second-ranking official said Friday the future of U.S. relations with Venezuela could hinge on whether that country tones down its anti-American rhetoric.