Venezuelan president appeals for unity
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Pledging to respect private wealth and fight corruption, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has told his opponents they should not fear his left-wing &quot;revolution&quot;.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Left-wing President Hugo Chavez was seeking a strong mandate for his self-styled revolution on Sunday as Venezuelans went to the polls to decide whether to re-elect the former soldier for six more years.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has displayed canny brinkmanship in his nationalization drive toward Cuba-inspired socialism despite his image as an impulsive Latin American revolutionary.
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Venezuela's president, Hugo ChÃ¡vez, last night denied turning his country into a dictatorship and said democracy was blossoming despite an "imperialist conspiracy" to overthrow his government.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela on Tuesday reacted  warmly to a U.S. overture seeking better relations, but urged  Washington to recognize that left-wing President Hugo Chavez's  government was democratic, stable and independent.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian President Alvaro  Uribe offered on Saturday to meet his Venezuelan counterpart,  Hugo Chavez, to defuse a widening diplomatic dispute over the  capture of a top Colombian rebel in Venezuela.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and other rival Palestinians called for unity on Saturday in the event of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 22 -- Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's blistering attack on President Bush at the United Nations this week marked a striking crescendo in a campaign to project Venezuela as a country with the global reach to counter American initiatives.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday that he spoke on Thursday with ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who temporarily stepped aside in July following intestinal surgery.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez continues a visit to Moscow focusing on energy and military co-operation.
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ARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 17 - Venezuela&#39;s opposition movement, crushed by its failure to oust President Hugo Chávez in a recall referendum, pressed ahead Tuesday with efforts to delegitimize the results of an election it insisted was ...
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - President Hugo Chavez's rival in Sunday's election urged Venezuela's electoral authority to "play fair," a week after he warned of possible vote fraud.
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Caracas, 30 Dec. Venpres (Veronica Sosa).- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez Araque has announced that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias will have an intense agenda in the area of foreign policy in ...
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By Pascal Fletcher CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President HugoChavez criticized the United States on Sunday for backingColombia in a dispute over the abduction of a top Colombianrebel and said Washington was trying to divide Latin America.
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CARACAS, Venezuela &#151; 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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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for a strategic partnership with Belarus Friday, calling his Belarusian counterpart a "brother-in-arms" and lamenting the pressure he said the United States was putting on Minsk and Caracas.
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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.