Chavez to seize overpriced shops
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez threatens to nationalise supermarkets that raise food prices.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez promised on Saturday to tackle poor garbage collection and high crime in a bid to win back support for his socialist "revolution," which was hurt in a poll defeat a few weeks ago.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez on Friday froze bilateral accords and business deals  with Colombia in retaliation for a Colombian police operation  that abducted a top Colombian Marxist rebel from Venezuela.
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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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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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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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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited a Harlem church Thursday and promised to double the amount of discounted heating oil his country ships to needy Americans. But he also took another swipe at President Bush.
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Venezuelan officials say the arms acquisitions are needed to circumvent a ban on sales of American weapons to the country and to counter potential military aggression from the United States.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez froze ongoing bilateral accords and energy deals with  Colombia on Friday in retaliation for the abduction of a  leading Colombian Marxist rebel from Venezuela.
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President Hugo Chavez&#039;s plans to build the first Kalashnikov factory in South America are stirring fears Venezuela could start arming his leftist allies in the hemisphere with Russian assault rifles.
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MARACAIBO, Venezuela  - President Hugo Chavez commanded a wide lead before Venezuela's election on Sunday, setting the stage for the self-styled revolutionary to intensify his anti-U.S., leftist crusade in Latin America.
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7-Eleven Inc. will drop  Venezuelan-controlled Citgo Petroleum Corp. as its gasoline  supplier, the convenience store operator said on Wednesday, a  week after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called President  Bush "the devil."
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday said he plans to buy 5,000 Dragunov sniper rifles from Russia to protect the oil-rich nation from a possible U.S. invasion.
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President Hugo Chavez's government moved to nationalize Venezuela's largest private electric company on Thursday, signing an agreement to buy a controlling stake in Electricidad de Caracas from its U.S.-based owner, AES Corp.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that taxes on foreign companies extracting heavy crudes from Venezuelan soil would be raised to 16.6 percent from less than 1 percent.
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CARACAS, Venezuela Aug. 29, 2004 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that as part of his deepening &quot;revolution,&quot; he will enforce an agriculture law that allows the government to tax and expropriate idle lots.
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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.