Update 1: Venezuela, Colombia Mull Gas Pipeline
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The world&#39;s oil producers don&#39;t have much capacity to increase output, which should keep prices high throughout 2005, Venezuela&#39;s oil minister said Thursday.
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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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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday he planned to hold talks with Colombia's FARC guerrillas in Venezuela in an attempt to break a stalemate on freeing kidnap victims held for years by the Marxist rebels.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Colombian drug kingpins in league with corrupt Venezuelan military officers are increasingly using this country as a way station for smuggling cocaine to the United States and Europe, according to Colombian and U.S. officials. The Bush administration's dismal relations with ...
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Venezuela has sent 1,200 troops to its border with Colombia to crack down on smuggling amid a bitter feud between the two countries' governments.
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A meeting this week between Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is key to ensuring that Colombian rebels are denied sanctuary in the neighboring country, Uribe's spokesman said Monday.
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Venezuela on Thursday vowed to strip some of the world's biggest oil companies of their controlling stakes in the heavy oil projects of the country's Orinoco Belt by May 1.
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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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Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez attend the start of a petrochemical plant in Iran.
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Colombia's president is ready to hold talks to try to end a diplomatic row with Venezuela, an aide says.
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BEIJING : Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has pledged support for Chinese companies to take part in oil exploration and pipeline construction projects in his country, state media said.
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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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CARACAS -- President Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez ordered by decree yesterday the takeover of oil projects operated by foreign oil companies in Venezuela's Orinoco River region. Ch&#xE1;vez previously announced the government's intention to take a majority stake by May 1 in the four heavy oil-upgrading projects run by British Petroleum PLC, Exxon Mobil Corp. , Chevron Corp., ConocoPhillips Co., Total SA, and ...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Colombian counterpart, Alvaro Uribe, are trying to smooth over their worst diplomatic dispute in years with a face-to-face meeting to discuss the recent capture of a Colombian rebel in Venezuela.
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Venezuela minimized the compensation it owes Exxon Mobil Corp for an oil project on Thursday, the latest volley in hard-ball negotiations that have prompted a threat to stop sending America oil.
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Venezuela and Malaysia may team up to build an oil refinery in the Asian nation, President Hugo Chavez said Monday after meeting with Malaysia's prime minister to discuss expanding trade and deepening ties.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday said the government of Colombia was plotting with the United States to attack Venezuela, the same day Colombia hosted U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.