Venezuelan vows gov't independent of U.S.
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A presidential candidate backed by Venezuela's major opposition parties pledged Thursday that, if elected, his government would remain independent of both U.S. and Cuban influence.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez   pledged solidarity on Wednesday with Syria in its struggle   against Israel and the United States and predicted the demise   of U.S. "imperialism."
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Belarussian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko vowed increased cooperation on Friday during a tour in which the Venezuelan leader has urged a global revolution against Washington.
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Ecuador's leftist president said he would not follow the lead of his close Venezuelan ally Hugo Chavez and seek to abolish limits on his re-election, vowing he had no interest in perpetuating himself in power as part of his sweeping constitutional reforms.
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President Hugo Chavez threatened on Monday to take over any private schools refusing to submit to the oversight of his socialist government, a move some Venezuelans fear will impose leftist ideology in the classroom.
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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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Cuban President Fidel Castro warned the  United States Saturday against plotting to kill his most  important ally, Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez.
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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...
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Washington is seeking a pragmatic relationship with President Hugo Chavez's government that will allow for cooperation on trade and other issues despite deep political differences, the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela said Tuesday.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday that he would &quot;stay in office until people do not wantit.&quot;. &quot;I will give my life for the hope of people,&quot; Chavez told a mass gathering
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Venezuela's president tried to shore up his standing by helping to secure the release of hostages in Colombia. But he learned his words don't carry as much weight with radicals next door
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelans overwhelmingly voted to keep President Hugo Chavez in office, dealing a crushing defeat to a splintered opposition and allowing the leftist leader to convert one of the biggest challenges of his presidency into an even broader mandate to carry on his "revolution for the poor."   Stunned opposition leaders, who have fought for years to oust Chavez, claimed fraud after results announced Monday by election officials showed nearly 60 percent of voters had said "no" to the question of whether he should leave office immediately.    But former President Jimmy Carter and the Organization of American States endorsed the results of Sunday's vote, which saw one of the biggest turnouts in Venezuela's history, and urged everybody to accept the outcome...
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela on Monday accused  the United States of imperialist blackmail after President Bush  ordered a cut in U.S. assistance because he said the South  American state was not doing enough to fight the trafficking of  women and children for sex.
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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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President Hugo Chavez vowed Thursday that Venezuela would win a seat on the U.N. Security Council despite U.S. opposition.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday touted the fuel facilities and public works projects his government has built in the Caribbean in an effort to make inroads in a region where the U.S. has long been dominant.
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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.