VenezuelaÂs Passion: Twisting the Tail of an Angry Beast
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Coleo, an event where men on horseback take a bull by its tail has inflamed animal welfare advocates but fans see it as VenezeulaÂs national sport.
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India reports success, while Venezuela fears fraud. What can the United States learn?
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A referendum is under way in Venezuela to decide if President Hugo Chavez should remain in office.
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Venezuela passes a strict media law condemned by the opposition and human rights groups.
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A surge in the number of Venezuelans seeking asylum in the United States has some drawing parallels with Communist Cuba in the early 1960s.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, June 1 -- Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's decision to pull the plug on an anti-government television station has prompted days of protests and generated international condemnation, giving a weak and demoralized opposition a rallying cry after years of setbacks.
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When Venezuela recognized China's status as a market economy last week, Beijing secured yet another pawn in a low-key battle it is waging against the United States and Europe, analysts said.
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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 administration, but the rifts may have grown too deep to be mended.
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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 -- The line forms every day after dawn at the Spanish Consulate, hundreds of people seeking papers permitting them to abandon Venezuela for new lives in Spain. They say they are filled with despair at President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's growing power, and they appear not to be alone. At other consulates in this capital, long lines form daily....
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Despite his nationalization moves, Venezuela's leader has a way to go. But a lot depends on how the U.S. treats him
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Hugo Chavez's revolution has created a lot of capitalist-minded consumers -- and made airline seats a precious commodity
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A full-page ad blasting Exxon Mobil appeared in the Venezuelan newspaper Ultimas Noticias on Monday. Drawings of drops of oil went from black at the top of the page to red at the bottom. "Exxon turns oil into blood," the bold-face text declared. Addressing "Exxtranjero" -- the Spanish word for...
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If President Hugo ChÃ¡vez rules like an autocrat, then he does so with the full permission of a substantial majority of the Venezuelan people, SundayÂs election showed.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is a believer in big government, and it shows in a state work force that has nearly doubled in the eight years since he took office promising to do away with patronage.
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People of Venezuela fight to keep cheap petrol as government remains wedded to subsidy
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From a proposal for crime-detecting blimps to Chavez's proclamation to set the clocks back a half hour, can Venezuela get any weirder?